The Wonderful Name of JesusEW Kenyon

FIRST WORDSHIS message is a struggle to make real to the modern

church the hidden wealth of an almost unknown truth of theWord of God.

The writer has felt for years that the disciples had apower to which we are utterly strangers, and that this powershould belong to the church.

He has been seeking a solution to this problem andbelieves that this book will be an unveiling of the hiddenspring.

We trust that others will build upon this foundation andthat before the return of our Lord, a portion, at least, of thebody of believers will be living in the freshness of the power ofthe early church.

If the book helps you, pass it on.

THE WHY OF THE BOOKSEVERAL years ago I was holding meetings in a city in

Tennessee. One afternoon, while giving an address on "TheName of Jesus" a lawyer interrupted me, ` asking: "Do youmean to say that Jesus gave us the `Power of Attorney' theLegal Right to use His Name?"

I said to him, "Brother, you are a lawyer and I am a layman. Tell me, did Jesus give us the `Power of Attorney?'

He said, "If language means anything, then Jesus gaveto the church the Power of Attorney."

Then I asked him, "What is the value of this Power ofAttorney?"

He answered, "It depends upon how much there is backof it, how much authority, how much power this Namerepresents." Then I began the search to find how much powerand authority Jesus had.

Then This Book CameThe measure of His ability is the measure of the value of

that Name, and all that is invested in that Name belongs to us,for Jesus gave us the unqualified use of His Name.

John 16:24, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in myname ask, and ye shall receive that your joy may be made full."

Jesus, here, not only gives us the use of His Name butHe also declares that the prayer, prayed in His Name willreceive His special attention. "Whatsoever ye shall ask of theFather in My Name, Ha will give it to you."

Jesus says, "You ask of the Father in My Name; I willendorse that, and the Father will give it to you." This putsprayer on a purely legal basis for He has given us the legalright to use His Name.

As we take our privileges, and rights, in the newCovenant and pray in Jesus' Name, it passes out of our handsinto the hands of Jesus; He then assumes the responsibility ofthat prayer, and we know that He said, "Father, I thank Theethat Thou Nearest Me, and I know that Thou hearest Mealways." In other words, we know that the Father always hearsJesus, and when we pray in Jesus' Name, it is as though JesusHimself were doing the praying, He takes our place.

Prayer a Business Proposition. This places prayer notonly on legal grounds, but makes it a business proposition.When we pray, we take Jesus' place here to carry out His will,and He takes our place before the Father.

He said that it should not only cover our prayer life butit also can be used in our combat against the unseen forcesthat surround us. "And these signs shall accompany them thatbelieve," or literally `the believing ones', Every child of God is abelieving one, "In My Name they shall cast out demons; theyshall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; ifthey drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; theyshall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

Here, He is revealing His part in the Great Commission.In that great document, He says, "All authority has been givenunto Me in heaven and on earth. "I am sending you out tomake disciples of all nations. "Lo, I am with you always."

He is with us in the Power and Authority of His Name.What does the Name mean to the Father, to the Church, and toSatan ?

To the Father, it must mean more than our hearts orminds will ever grasp, but we can suggest a little of the wealththat the Father has stored in that Name. First, He inherited amore excellent Name than any of the angels as the FirstBegotten Son.

Second, God gave to Him a Name above every namethat at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow in the threeworlds. Third, by His conquest over sin, Satan, disease, death,hell, and the grave He acquired a Name that is above all names.

When Jesus gave us the legal right to use this Name,the Father knew all that that Name would imply when breathed

in prayer by oppressed souls, and it is His joy to recognize thatName.

So the possibilities enfolded in that Name are beyondour understanding, and when He says to the Church,"Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My Name," He isgiving us a signed check on the resources of heaven andasking us to fill it in.

It would pay the Church to begin an exhaustive studyof the resources of Jesus in order to get a measurement of thewealth that Name holds for her today.

HOW HE OBTAINED HIS NAMEBEFORE we go further in the study of the Name of

Jesus, it would be well for us to know something of the Man,see His standing in heaven, His achievements in the Plan ofRedemption and the glory and honor that belongs to Himtoday as He sits at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High.

Let us turn to Hebrews 1:1-4:

"God having of old time spoken unto the fathers in theprophets by divers portions and in divers manners, (a messagehere and a message there), hath at the end of these daysspoken unto us in His Son, Whom He appointed heir of allthings, through Whom also He made the worlds; Who beingthe effulgence of His glory, and the very image of Hissubstance, and upholding all things by the Word of His power,when He had made purification of sins, sat down on the righthand of the Majesty on High; having become by so muchbetter than the angels, as He hath inherited a more excellentName than they."

God spoke through men of old by special illumination oftheir minds but in these last days He speaks unto us in thePerson of His Son.

It is more than through Him; it is more than by Him; it isGod manifest in the flesh, carrying out His will, speaking Hisown inner thoughts in the life and acts of the Son.

Not only did He speak through Jesus but more

especially was God manifest in the Son, it was God in Christ,and from this new Throne, the Body of His Son, He is speakingto man in a new revelation of Himself.

To this Son Whom He appointed heir of all things andWho being the outshining of His very glory and the veryimage of His substance and upholding all things by the Wordof His power when He had made a substitution for sins, whenHe had satisfied every claim of justice and met every need ofman, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, thehighest seat in the universe.

When God speaks through man, He must absolutelytake possession of the man so the man will not use hisreasoning faculties.

But in the case of Jesus, it was not possession, it wasthe Eternal Son Himself.

He could say, "Father, give Me the glory I had withThee before the worlds were."

He remembered His place in the Father's bosom.

He could say, "I came out from the Father. I came intothe world."

Again, "I leave the world, and go unto the Father."

"Have I been so long time with you and dost Thou notknow Me? He that hath seen Me bath seen the Father." He wasthe revelation of the Father. He did not have to imitate God, Hewas God!

His Three-Fold GreatnessSome men are born to a great name as a czar or a king;

others make their name great by achievements or have a greatname conferred upon them. Jesus is great because He inheriteda great Name; His Name is great because of achievements; Heis great because a great Name was conferred upon Him.

He inherited a greater Name than any angelic being, andas a Son, He is heir of all things, and through Him the ageshave been brought into being. He is the effulgence, the veryoutshining of the Father.

His Name comes to Him as an Inheritance; and what itmust have been to have Inherited this Name from His greatFather-God !

In Philippians 2:9, 10 we find: "Wherefore also Godhighly exalted Him and gave unto Him the Name which isabove every Name that at the Name of Jesus every knee shouldbow of the beings in heaven and the beings on earth, and thebeings under the earth, and that every tongue should confessthat Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father."

If it tells us in Hebrews that He Inherited a greater Namethan the angels, here it declares that God gave unto Him theName which is above every name.

The inference is that there was a Name known inheaven, unknown elsewhere, and this Name was kept to beconferred upon someone who should merit it: and Jesus, as weknow Him, the Eternal Son as He is known in the bosom of the

Father was given this Name, and at this Name every knee shallbow in the three worlds, Heaven, Earth, and Hell, and everytongue shall confess that He is Lord of the three worlds to theglory of God, the Father.

This Is the ManIt is this Being Who has given us the right to use His

Name. In Ephesians 1:17 we find a prayer by Paul, a mostunusual prayer. He prays that the Father will open the eyes ofour understanding that we may know something of the richesof the Father's inheritance in us, and then, that our eyes may beopened that we may see what is the exceeding greatness of Hispower on our behalf who believe.

He declares it is according to the working of thestrength of God's might which was wrought in the dead bodyof Jesus when He raised Him from among the dead; and whenHe raised Him and made Him to sit at His right hand in theheavenlies, far above all rule, and authority, and power, anddominion; and every name that is named not only in this agebut in that which is to come; and He gave Him to be Head overall things for the benefit of His Church, which is His Body, thefullness of Him that filleth all things in all.

He not only Inherited a more excellent Name than anyother being in the universe, God not only Gave Him a Namebefore which every being in the three worlds shall bow andconfess His Lordship, but here, God has Given to Him a Namewhich is above every name, and He has seated Him in thehighest place in the universe, and has made Him Head over allthings.

For What Purpose?God has made this investment for the benefit of the

Church; He has made this deposit on, which the Church has aright to draw for Her every need. He has given to Him the Namethat has within it the fullness of the Godhead, the wealth of theEternities, and love of the heart of the Father-God: and, thatName is given us.

We have the right to use that Name against ourenemies. We have the right to use it in our petitions. We havethe right to use it in our praises and worship. That Name hasbeen given unto us.

But this is only the beginning of the wonders and thevalue of the greatness of that Name.

In Colossians 2:15 we get a deeper view of Hisconquest of the Satanic forces just before He rose from thedead: "Having despoiled the principalities and the powers, Hemade a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it."

The picture here is of Christ in the dark regions of thelost, in awful combat with the hosts of darkness. It gives us aglimpse of the tremendous battle and victory that Jesus wonbefore He rose from the dead.

The margin reads: "Having put off from Himself, theprincipalities and powers."

It is evident that the whole demon host, when they sawJesus in their power simply intended to swamp Him, overwhelm

Him, and they held Him in fearful bondage until the cry cameforth from the throne of God that Jesus had met the demands ofjustice; that the sin problem was settled and man's redemptionwas a fact.

The Mighty VictorWhen this cry reached the dark regions, Jesus rose and

hurled back the hosts of darkness, and met Satan in awfulcombat as described in Hebrews 2:14: "In order that throughdeath, He might paralyze him that held the dominion of death,that is, the devil." (Rotherham)

In other words, after Jesus had put off from Himself thedemon forces and the awful burden of guilt, sin, and sicknessthat He carried with Him down there, He grappled with Satan,conquered him, and left him paralyzed, whipped and defeated.

The words that Jesus spoke are fulfilled in Luke 11 :21-22: "When a strong man fully armed guardeth his own court,his goods are in peace: but when a stronger man than he shallcome upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him hiswhole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils."

So when Christ rose from the dead, He not only had thekeys of death and of hell but He had the very armor in whichSatan trusted.

He has defeated the devil: He has defeated all hell, andHe stands before the three worlds, heaven, earth, and hell, asthe undisputed victor over man's ancient destroyer.

He conquered Satan before his own cohorts, his ownservants in the dark regions of the damned, and there He stoodin that dread place, the absolute victor and Master.

Is it any wonder, that fresh from such tremendous

victories, He should say to the disciples, "All authority hasbeen given unto Me in heaven and in earth"?

He stands as the Master and the Ruler of the Universe.His Name now is above every name, and at His Name we canunderstand how every knee shall bow and all this authorityand power that Jesus gained by His mighty conquest is in thatName, and He has given that Name to us.

The authority that He has won is delegated to us in theuse of His name. All He was, is in that Name; all He is today, isin that Name, and that Name is ours. Jesus was given thatName, that He might give it to us.

He gave His Name to us that we might carry cut the willOf the Father in this dispensation in which we are living. Weknow the early Church utilized this authority.

The Early Church acted for Jesus in His stead.

They wrought miracles and the miracles opened doorsfor ministry and service.

AuthorityIt gave authority to their credentials, a standing in the

communities where they preached.

They had the coin of the unseen Kingdom. TheOmnipotence of God was invested in that Name in the EarlyChurch, and the disciples used it with a fearless abandonmentthat is absolutely thrilling! They believed in God! They livedand walked in the realm of the supernatural. It was the days ofGod on earth to the people where they ministered.

The Use of the NameIt might be well for us now to look at the promises Jesus

made in regard to the use of His Name. "And whatsoever yeshall ask in My Name, that will I do that the Father may beglorified in the Son." John 14:13.

This is a striking promise when we realize that Jesus isseated at the Right Hand of the Father, that Jesus holds thehighest position in the universe as the Head of the Church.

Here is the charter promise: "Hitherto ye have askednothing in My Name.

Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be madefull." John 16:24. Jesus says, "Hitherto, or up to this time, youhave never prayed in My Name, but now, whatsoever ye shallask of the Father in My Name, He will give it you." Thispromise is the most staggering statement that perhaps ever fellfrom the lips of the Man of Galilee, that we are to have the useof His Name, that Name of Omnipotence.

He does not say, "If we believe," or "if we have faith."This Name has been given to us. It is ours! What is mine, I donot need faith to use. When we are born into the Family ofGod, the right to use the Name and the privilege to use it comeswith the new birth. All the authority vested in that Name isgiven to us to bring glory to the Name of the Father, that theFather may he glorified in the Son.

This Son Who was an outcast on the earth andcrucified, hung naked before the world, His Name shall go

ringing down through the ages. Wherever the shame of thecrucifixion has gone, the glory and might and power and honorof that Name will go. Wherever men have ridiculed Jesus, thatName will go.

Wherever men have cursed that Man, that Name will gowith its Omnipotence, its might and power, shedding blessingsand healing and comfort upon the human race, and honor andglory to God, the Father.

He now is to be with us in the power of that Name, thatName is to take His place.

All that He could do locally then can he done locallynow by every believer.

In other words, He multiplies Himself as rapidly as Hemultiplies the Church, for the weakest son has a legal right nowto all the grace, and might, and power, and blessing, andhealth, and healing, and life enwrapped in the Person Whobore that Name.

All that Jesus was, His Name is.

All that Jesus was, that Name will ever be during thisdispensation. That Name has lost none of the power of theMan Who bore it. In these Scriptures, we have seen that theFather has lifted Him to the highest position in the universe. Hehas conferred upon Him the highest Name in the universe.

He has bestowed upon Him honor, and glory andpower, and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenlies,

far above every known authority; and now, all this honor, thisglory, this authority, this power, is vested in the Name ofJesus, and this Name is given to us.

New Land AheadOh, that our eyes were open; that our souls would dare

rise into the realm of Omnipotence where the Name would meanto us all that the Father has invested in it; that we would act upto our high privileges in Christ Jesus. This is practically anunexplored tableland in Christian experience.

Here and there, some of us have experienced theauthority vested in the Name of Testis.

We have seen the lame walk, the deaf hear, the blindsee; those on the verge of death brought hack instantly tohealth and vigor; but, so far, none of us have been able to takea permanent place in our privileges and abide where we mayenjoy the fullness of this mighty power.

But we have a conviction that before the Lord Jesusreturns, there will be a mighty army of believers who will learnthe secret of living in the Name, of reigning in life, living thevictorious, transcendent. resurrection life of the Son of Godamong men.

If our minds could only grasp the fact that Satan isparalyzed, stripped of his armor by the Lord Jesus. and thatdisease and sickness are servants of this Man; that at Hisvoice, they must depart, it would be easy to live in thisResurrection Realm.

You remember in Matt. 8. when the centurion talkedwith Testis, he said, "Brit speak the Word and my servant willbe healed, for T myself am a man set under authority, and I say

to this one, Go. and he goeth; to another, Come, and hecometh.

You have been set over diseases, as I am set over thesehundred men, and am called a centurion; so you are Masterover disease and sickness, over demons and the laws ofnature.

All you have to do is to speak and your servants obey,as I speak and my servants obey."

In this beautiful illustration, we see that the centurionhad risen to a higher plane of spiritual appreciation of Jesusthan most believers enjoy today.

WHAT IS BACK OF THE NAMETHERE has never been a more intense battle over the a

Deity of the Man of Galilee than is being waged today. Thegreat Body of the Church do not see as they never have seen,the issue squarely; neither have they realized the result of thisstruggle.

Unfortunately, we have arrayed against the Deity ofChrist a body of semi-intellectuals.

There are scarcely a half dozen who belong to the firstrank, either of scholastic or intellectual strength, that havebeen engaged on either side.

The debates that have been staged in different parts ofthe country have savored more of the barn-storming tactics ofthe modern political demagogue than of cold-bloodedintellectual investigation into the merits of the issue.

The Deity of the Man of Galilee is the crux ofChristianity. If this can be successfully challenged, thenChristianity has lost its heart and it will cease to function; it willbecome a dead religion.

There is no denial that the challenge of His Deity hasalready begun its reactionary effect upon society. If Jesus isnot Deity, He is not Lord. If He is not Lord, then He cannotinterfere with our moral activities.

If He is not Lord, then the laws that have been foundedupon His teachings have lost their force. The morals that

surround marriage with its lofty ideals have no basis of fact.

If Jesus of Nazareth is not a revelation from God withDivine authority, then He is but a man.

If He is but a man, all that we have built around Himmust be destroyed, and we have built around this Man ourmodern civilization. He has been the inspiration of young men:they have kept themselves clean and pure as they have lookedupon His wonder life and sought to win His smile.

Young women in the secret of their chamber havelooked upon the face of the Man of Galilee and have pledgedto preserve the purity of their womanhood that they might beworthy of the love and confidence of the Man Who died twothousand years ago for humanity.

Children have been incited to obedience and purity bythe example and teachings of that Man. Business men havebeen deterred from crooked dealings by the consciousnessthat one day they would meet that Man and give an account ofthe deeds done in their office.

Men of all walks of life have felt a strange kinship withthis Man Who walked the shores of Galilee, solitary among amultitude. To say He was but a good man is an insult.

To say that He was the highest expression of Deity inhumanity is to throw the lie into His face. Jesus is or He is notwhat He said He was. We have no record of His sayings nor ofHis doings out side the four Gospels, and if we repudiate them,then we have but a mythical picture of the Man.

If we challenge one of them, we have a right tochallenge all of them: either He stands or falls on those fourbiographical sketches. If He is not the Son of God, who is He?

I want to believe that He is an Incarnation. I want tobelieve that He dealt with the sin problem. I want to believethat He died for my sins and that He rose again for myjustification.

I want to believe that He is seated at God's right handtoday as the Intercessor and Mediator of the human race. Iwant to believe that what He said about heaven is true "In myFather's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place foryou, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come againand receive you unto myself." Skepticism holds no guarantyfor my future.

Civilization has not only been builded around this Man,but He has been builded into civilization. If you destroy Hischaracter, His standing, His place, then civilization mustdisintegrate.

The wave of crime and lawlessness that is sweepingover the land is but a by-product of the modernists' challengeof His integrity.

THE USE OF THE NAMEIT MIGHT be a helpful study for us to notice the Name

in the plan of salvation and its relation to the believer in hisChristian life.

"And she shall bring forth a Son; and thou shalt callHis Name Jesus, for it is He that shall save His people fromtheir sins. Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bringforth a Son, and they shall call His Name Immanuel, which is,being interpreted, God with us." Matt. 1 :21, 23.

The Name "Jesus" is inseparably connected withsalvation. The very Name is filled with music to a repentantsoul.

"And in none other is there salvation : for neither isthere any other name under heaven, that is given among men,wherein we must be saved." Acts 4:12.

It is the one Name through which the sinner approachesthe Great Father God; it is the one Name that gives him ahearing; it is the one Name that unveils to him the mediatorialministry of Jesus.

"Baptizing them into the Name of the Father and of theSon and of the Holy Spirit."

"Repent ye and be baptized every one of you in theName of Jesus Christ unto the remission of sins and ye shallreceive the rift of the Holy Spirit."

Not only are we saved by the Name, but the believer isbaptized into the Name.

And we find in the same verse that not only are webaptized into the Name, but on the ground of the Name weshall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Then Jesus gave usthese promises of the use of His Name in prayer.

"Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I dothat the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall askanything in My Name, that will I do. If ye love Me, ye will keepMy commandments." John 14:13-15.

"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My Name: ask, andye shall receive, that your joy may be made full." John 16:24.

In Acts 3:1-6 we hear Peter saying, "Silver and goldhave I none, but what I have, that give I thee. In the Name ofJesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." Men are baptized into theName; men pray in the Name; now, in that Name the impotentand helpless are made to walk. In Acts 16:18 we see theApostle Paul casting a demon out of a possessed girl, settingher free, and stirring the city of Ephesus to the veryfoundation.

What power that Name has for the Church today!

"For where two or three are gathered together in MyName, there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:20.

The assemblies were taught that when they met, theygathered about that Name.

What a strange hush must have come upon the heartsof the disciples when they realized as they gathered in theirlittle meetings that that Name was the center around whicheverything revolved!

That their prayers were addressed through that Nameand in that Name the sick were healed; in that Name thedemons were cast out: in that Name the Holy Spirit came uponbelievers; in that Name they worshipped; in that name theName of their absent Lord, all the work of the Early Church waswrought. In Col. 3:17 they were taught to do all things in thatName. Eph. 5:20, to give thanks always for all things in thatName. In 1 Cor. 6:11 they were washed, sanctified, justified inthat Name. Hebrews 13:15, Make confession to His Name.

James 5:14 Anointing the sick in the Name of the Lord. IJohn 3:23 "And this is His commandment, that we shouldbelieve in the Name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love oneanother, even as He gave us commandment."

The new commandment was that they love one anotherand believe in the Name.

We can see by this, that the Name of Jesus touchedevery phase of the Church life, in those early days; that it filleda place in their thought, in their prayer and in their preaching ofwhich we are utterly ignorant today.

May the Lord open the eyes of our hearts that we mayknow the riches of the glory of God that are hidden in thatName.

IN MY NAME YE SHALL CAST OUTDEMONS

MOST of the readers of this book know what they areworth financially.

If you are a farmer, you know practically every rod ofland that your deed covers.

If you own city property, or if you rent, you know everyroom in the house.

In this grasping world of ours, we attempt to utilize allour possessions; but in the spiritual world, how few of usreally know, possess, or enjoy what our deed covers.

The spiritual life is so little understood by even thewisest of us.

You remember that Jesus said as He left the disciples,"In My Name ye shall cast out demons," and you alsoremember that a large part of His ministry was filled withcombats with the unseen hosts of darkness.

One would naturally think in reading our modernreligious literature, and listening to the average preacher'ssermon, that demons had gone out of existence, or else theyhad been herded together in the slums of the city and werespending their entire time among the lower strata of humanity.

Years ago I was led to study this subject. I found thatthe Scriptures taught a great deal about demons, their habits,

influence, and power over men. When Paul was writing to theEphesian Church, he told them that their combat was, "Notagainst flesh and blood, but against the principalities, againstthe powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness."

Writing to the Colossians, he said: "Epaphras, who isone of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, alwaysstriving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect andfully assured in all the will of God." You notice that the word"striving" literally means to wrestle, struggle, combat.

With whom was he struggling? With whom was thisagonizing? Surely not with the Father: the eternal purpose ofthe Father is to bless men. We know that prayer cannot changeGod's purpose, in any ordinary sense of the word, Prayer mayaccelerate God, or stir Him up to come to our rescue, or enlistHis cooperation and sympathy and help in a time of need; butall through the Revelation there is breathed out here and therethe fact of a hidden force that is intelligently warring againstthe purpose of God.

In my own ministry for years, I found a great deal oftrouble, that perhaps every preacher or evangelist finds, withcertain types of people who were always trying and neverseemed to get settled in God.

They were always standing up for prayers but neverseemed to get any farther.

Another class really seemed to get the light, but wereheld by some unseen powers.

These people naturally caused me a great deal oftrouble I wondered how I could help them, and one day I wasstrangely led beyond myself to command that unseen powerbroken over a person whom it was holding.

I prayed in the name of Jesus. I cried: "In the Name ofJesus, I command your power broken over this life." Instantly,the person was delivered, and I stood amazed at the effect.

A strange fear came over me that I had been able toexercise, by this simple command in Jesus' Name, thismarvelous power, and since that time, I have seen manystartling results in revival services through using the Name ofJesus.

I found that the reason many men did not accept Jesusas their Saviour was because they were held by the power ofdemons. The people are hungry; they want deliverance fromsin they crave eternal life, but they are unable, many of them, tobreak loose from the bonds that are holding them.

Hundreds of people have said to me, "I cannot becomea Christian. I want to, but something holds me." I have simplylaid my hand on their shoulder and said, "In the Name of Jesusof Nazareth, I command the power that holds you, broken.Now, in His mighty Name, get on your feet."

With tears of joy, they have obeyed. I have prayed withmen who were held by habits, tobacco, liquor, lusts, and, in thesame mighty Name, I have seen them delivered, usuallyinstantaneously.

I have found Christians who were unable to testify orlead in prayer, in public meetings, who felt their mouths closedwhile their hearts cried for liberty.

I have scarcely met a case, for whom I have prayed inthe Name, and over whom I have commanded the powerbroken. but what they have had immediate deliverance.

In cases of Divine Healing, I have seen some cases thatwould move the country, had they known of them.

A woman who was almost blind was healed by thepower of the Name of Jesus, so that today she can readwithout glasses. Some have been cured of heart disease andvarious other infirmities. Many of those cases found it verydifficult to take their healing.

I prayed for them several times, and found that thedifficulty lay in the fact that they were held, that they werebound by the power of demons. They were delivered when Isaid, "In the Name of Jesus, demons leave this body."

I cannot conceive how successful work can be donetoday, or how believers can be in a place of continual victory,unless they know that the source of their danger lies indemoniacal power, and that the power to conquer it is in theName of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God.

The more quickly we recognize that the very air aboutus is filled with hostile forces, who are attempting to destroyour fellowship with the Father, and to deprive us of ourusefulness in the service of our Master, the better :t will be for

us. Three things are necessary in order to pray and takedeliverance and victory over demons.

First, we must be children of God.

Second, we must not have any unconfessed orunforgiven sin in the heart, for if we do, the demons will laughat our pavers. Third, we must know the power of the Name ofJesus, and know how to use it.

Read the Book of Acts carefully, and notice how thedisciples used the Name.

Readers, if your own life has been defeated andhemmed in by the power of the Adversary, rise up in thatAlmighty Name of Jesus; hurl back the Enemy; take yourdeliverance; go, and set others free.

In His NameWhat does the expression "in His Name" mean? We

know that the expression "in Christ" as used about onehundred and thirty times in the New Testament, shows us thebeliever’s position, his Legal Standing, his place in the familyand in the purposes or program of God.

When Jesus gave to the Early Church the Right to useHis Nam.. that Right meant that they were to represent Him;they were acting in His stead, and when the prayed in Jesus'Name, it was as though Jesus Himself were praying.

I mean that we are taking Christ's place and acting asChrist's representatives.

Christ is at the Right Hand of the Father, we are here asHis representatives, not only collectively, but individually.

When we pray in Jesus' Name, we are taking the placeof the absent Christ; we are using His name, using Hisauthority to carry out His will on the earth.

When we say, "Father, we ask this in Jesus' Name," weare praying representatively.

We are saying, "Father, Jesus is up there at Thy RightHand and He gave us the Power of Attorney to carry out yourwill on earth. So here is this great need. We ask Thee in HisNa.ne to meet it."

That need may be for finances; it may be for power inministry; it may be for salvation of souls; it may be for the

healing of a sick one, but we take Jesus' place and use Jesus'Name just as though Jesus Himself were here. The onlydifference is that instead of Jesus doing it, were doing it forHim; we are doing it at His command.

He has given to us the same authority He had when Hewas here, and the believer's position in Christ gives him thesame Standing with the Father that Christ had when He washere.

This unlimited use of the Name of Jesus reveals to usthe implicit confidence that the Father has in the Church. Thisin itself is a challenge. The simplicity of Peter's use of the Nameof Jesus in the Book of Acts compels us to believe that Peterknew he was acting in Jesus' stead, with the same authoritythat Jesus had.

You will notice he does not stop even to pray for a sickone all he does is to say, "In Jesus' Name, rise and walk." Thereis no hint that he attempted to exercise what we call "faith" inany manner; it reduced itself to a simple business propositionwith the Early Church, they remembered what the Master saidand what He said, was true, to them.

He said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in MyName, I will give it you."

They did not argue about it; they did not worry aboutit; they did not stop to analyze what it meant, all they did wasto act on the Words of Jesus. They did not understand all thatPaul afterwards revealed to us in Romans, Galatians, and

Ephesians, but they did know that Jesus had given them aRight to use that Name and they entered into that Right withthe simplicity of a child.

It seems to me that this is what we need to do today."In My Name ye shall cast out demons; in My Name ye shalllay hands on the sick and they shall recover." This was givento believers, and we are believers.

"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, Hewill give it you," is a declaration that is simple enough for anyone to understand. We have been baptized into that Namepublicly; and spiritually, we have been put into Christ by theNew Birth so that we now are in the Vine as one of thebranches, and the Vine is Christ.

We are in Christ, and being in Christ, we have a right touse His Name! and so in that Name we act representatively,legally This glorifies the Father; this magnifies Jesus; thisanswers the need of humanity. Here is supernatural power thatis available to every believer.

It is not a question of education or ordination butmerely a question of my apprehending my own true position inChrist, and there using the power that has been legally given tome and to every believer. Oh, the wonder and grace of God!

MAN AND MIRACLESJESUS ! The very Name has within it miracle working

power, even to this day, though nearly two thousand yearshave rolled away since He walked with men. Jesus, the Galilean,was a miracle worker. Jesus' life was a miracle.

His wisdom and teachings were miraculous.

He lived and walked in the realm of the miraculous.

He made miracles common.

His death was a miracle.

His resurrection was a miracle.

His appearances were miraculous.

His ascension was a staggering miracle.

But perhaps the most outstanding miracle of all thosewonder days was the event of Pentecost. From the upper room,went forth men and women boldly to testify of Jesus' Name,who fifty days before shrank in fear from the very names of theHigh Priest and his associates.

Peter, the trembling, fearful Peter, is now clothed with apower and fearlessness that is inexplicable; he goes out andfaces the Sanhedrin, Senate, and High Priesthood with acourage that amazes us.

A stream of miracles flowed from the hands of the

apostles that upset Judaism and shook the Roman governmentto its foundation. They made a discovery, the Name of the ManWhom they had loved, Whom they had seen nailed to thatcross in nakedness, now has power equal to the power that He,Himself exercised when He was among them.

The sick were healed, the dead were raised, demonswere cast out by simply breathing that Name over the afflictedones. What a stream of miraculous love, life, hope, and joyshowered from the ministry of those humble Galileans.

Those first thirty-three years of early history as seen inActs, were sample years of the acts of the Church until thereturn of Her Lord and Master. Man is the offspring of themiracle worker. The miracle working desire is embedded deep inthe consciousness of man. Christianity is based on a series ofmiracles culminating in Pentecost.

Miracles NormalChristianity began in miracles; it is propagated by

miracles. Every new birth is a miracle; every answer to prayer isa miracle; every victory over temptation is a miracle.

When Reason takes the place of the miraculous,Christianity loses its virility, fascination, and fruitfulness.Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the life of God inman. Christianity was the unveiling of the heart and nature ofthe Great Father-God in the Man Jesus.

There could not be a religion that would appeal tohumanity that was not founded upon miracles and propagatedby miracles. Man craves a miracle working God today.Whenever there arises a man or woman whose prayers areheard and answered, the multitudes flock to them.

Man wants a living God. Man craves a miracle. Thedeep seated hunger in the human heart for God is the reasonfor all religions. Men are easily deceived by pseudo miracleworkers because of this hunger after the supernatural.

One of America's greatest psychologists, who ridiculedthe miraculous for over thirty years in his class room at one ofthe leading universities, finally sat at the feet of the highpriestess of Spiritualism and confessed over his own signaturein a popular magazine that at last he had found faith in thesupernatural.

What a pitiable picture! Turning from the miracleworking Jesus to the miracle working Satan. God created man in

His own image and in His own likeness, and through JesusChrist allows him to become a partaker of His own nature.

This lifts man into the realm of God, and in that realmthe Father-God can unveil Himself to His child. The answer tothe universal craving of man for the supernatural is found inthe new birth, and indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, andthe Name of Jesus.

Prayer becomes a miracle working force in the world.

Christianity is a MiracleGod is a miracle worker. Jesus Christ was a miracle, and

is a miracle. The Bible is a miracle Book. If we take thesupernatural out of Christianity, we have a religion. Miraclesare not out of harmony with the desire of humanity. A miracleworker, either real or false, will draw a greater congregationthan the greatest philosopher or statesman in the world.

This love of the miraculous is not a mark of ignorancebut rather an outreaching after the unseen God. Educationdoes not eliminate the desire for the miraculous in man. Thatdesire is intensified, as education unveils man's impotence inthe presence of the laws of nature and shows him his utterdependence upon the unseen.

It is not a mark of great scholarship, piety, or mentalacumen to deny the miraculous.

The Universal Man Believes in Miracles.The Bible is a record of miracles and Divine

interventions. It is history of the outbreakings of thesupernatural realm into the natural. Beginning with Abraham allof the major characters of Old Testament history were miracleworkers, or better, God wrought miracles through them. Thething that lifted Joseph from the prison to the office of premierof Egypt was a miracle. Israel's deliverance from Egypt'sbondage was by a series of miracles that shook Egypt to itsvery foundation.

The crossing of the Red Sea and the forty years in thewilderness were a series of miracles unparalleled in humanhistory. The object of these miracles was to separate Israelfrom the dead gods of Egypt and bind them to the worship ofthe Living God of Abraham. Judaism was Judaism as long asthe miracle working God was manifest.

When miracles ended, Israel lapsed into heathenism,and only came back into fellowship with their God after a seriesof staggering miracles. Had we space, it would be interesting tostudy the miracles of the Conquest of Canaan, the period of theKings, of the Four Great Miracles recorded in Daniel that sentIsrael back from captivity into their own land, free from idolatry,establishing a precedent of a nation of slaves set free, and sentto their own country with permission and more, with funds torebuild their city, their temple, and establish its worship; it hasno parallel in human history, it is a distinct and definite miracle.

When Jesus began His public ministry, it was a ministry

of miracles. When the Church began her ministry it was aministry of miracles. Every revival since Pentecost that hashonored the humble Galilean has been a revival of miracles.The Church has never been rescued from Her backslidings bygreat philosophical teachers but humble laymen who have hada new vision of the Christ, of "Him Who is the same yesterday,today, and forever."

We crave the manifest presence of the Spirit in ourreligious services-a dry, dead meeting has no drawing powerbut a service where men are being richly blessed in theunfolding of Scripture or the saving of souls, the healing of thesick, or the filling with the Spirit, has a drawing power.

An outpouring of the Spirit is a challenge to acommunity any time.

All normal men crave the supernatural, they long to seethe manifestation of the power of God and to feel the thrill ofthe touch of the unseen.

Man Demands MiraclesMan was created by a miracle working God, that miracle

element is in man. Man yearns to perform miracles and live inthe atmosphere of the supernatural.

This miracle element in man has made him an inventor,discoverer, and investigator.

It has caused him to experiment until he has conqueredchemicals, electricity and the air.

It is this element that has given to us the aero plane,submarine, radio, and wireless, and all the other devices,inventions, and discoveries that make up our moderncivilization.

The miracle realm is man's natural realm, he is bycreation the companion of the miracle working Father-God. Sindethroned man from the miracle realm but through grace he iscoming into his own. It has been a hard struggle for us to graspthe principles of this strange life of faith.

Sin has made us workers, grace would make us trusters.

In the beginning, man's spirit was the dominant force inthe world; when he sinned, his mind became dominant, sindethroned the spirit and crowned the intellect; but grace isrestoring the spirit to its place of dominion, and when mancomes to recognize the dominance of the spirit, he will live inthe realm of the supernatural without effort.

No longer will faith be a struggle and fight but an

unconscious living in the realm of God.

The spiritual realm is man's normal home; it places himwhere communion with God is a normal experience, where faithin the miraculous, miracle-working God is unconscious, wherehe will exercise the highest type of faith and yet be asunconscious of having exercised faith as he is when he writes acheck.

THE PLACE OF FAITH IN THE USE OFTHE NAME

THE prayerful student of the Word is confronted withthis fact, that nowhere does Jesus mention Faith or Belief whenHe is talking about using His Name except in the Future Tense.

Take Mark 16:17, 18 as an illustration "And these signsshall accompany them that believe: in My Name they shall castout demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shalltake up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it shall inno wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and theyshall recover."

A literal rendering of that is "the believing ones" shallin My Name do these things.

It is taken for granted that only believers have a Rightto the use of the Name of Jesus, the Right to use His Name is aconferred blessing to the Church, it is a Right that belongs toevery child of God.

We have a four-fold right to use the Name. First, we areborn into the family of God and the Name belongs to the family.Second, we are baptized into the Name, and being baptized intothe Name, we are baptized into Christ Himself.

Third, it was conferred upon us by Jesus Who gave usthe Power of Attorney. Fourth, we are commissioned asAmbassadors to go and herald this Name among the nations.Then if this authority is conferred upon us we act as

representatives for Christ.

We do this first, on the ground of our birthright;second, on the ground of having been baptized into this Name;and third, that the legal right to use this Name has beenconferred upon us.

Last, on the ground that we have been sent out asambassadors to herald this Name among the nations.

I cannot see where we need to have any special Faith touse the Name of Jesus, because it is legally ours. If I had athousand dollars in the bank, it would not require anyconscious act of Faith on my part to write a check for onehundred, but if I wanted to draw eleven hundred dollars whereI only had one thousand on deposit, that might require Faith.

Some of us have had the unhappy experience of havingoverdrawn our bank account on earth, but the Finished Workof Jesus Christ has made a deposit for us in the Bank up therethat cannot be overdrawn. It is ours-blessedly, eternally ours.Thank God!

If you are a child, then you are an heir of God, a jointheir with Christ, you have a Right to the use of the Name ofJesus, and if you have this Right, it is because of your place inthe family.

I believe the hour will come when large companies ofbelievers will live this simple life of Faith; live it unconsciously,live it daily, they will live in this upper realm where they will seein the Name of Jesus the fullness of the authority and power

that was in Christ when He walked on the earth.

We are now in the babyhood stage : we are trying tohave faith; we are trying to believe: and we meet together inour services, each one urging the other to do, what he does notdo himself.

It would seem in many cases that we are practicing agame of bluff.

Are we using Scriptural expressions and high soundingphrases that have no meaning to our inner consciousness?Thank God, there are some who are coming to see this newlight, which will only come by intensive study and actuallythinking through on this problem.

Too many of us are listening to preachers, alwayslistening and never digesting or doing any original thinking, weare what Jesus called "hearers of the Word and not doers."

The instant a man or woman thinks through on thisproblem, that moment he rises into a new realm of Life in ChristHe actually begins to reign in the realm of Life.

Then he is able to meet demons and diseases on theirown plane, and conquer them; able to enjoy the fruits of theFinished Work of Christ and enter into the riches of Hisinheritance.

Jesus Is In That Name Ile is that Name.All He was, all He did, all He is and all that He ever will

he is in that Name now. He wrought the healing for its; He ishealing for us now. He satisfied the claims of justice andbecame our righteousness, He is now our righteousness.

He passed down through death and up into life, and Heis our Life now. He gave us life, He is that Life He gave. He ishealing, He is health, He is victory, He is our all and in all.

That Name Is HealingAnd when He gave us the right to use His Name to heal

the sick, it was simply that we might bring on the scene by theuse of that Name the fullness of His finished work. and that theafflicted one might know that in the use of that Name theLiving, Healing Christ was present.

It is. not trying to believe; it is not trying to takehealing. Believing becomes unnecessary in the modern senseof that term.

That healing is ours; that Name makes it available to us.That Name is ours, and in that Name is all help, all victory, allpower, all health. Do not try; do not struggle, just use it.

Use that Name with the same freedom that you use yourcheck book.

The money is on deposit; you write the check withoutexercising any special faith; that is, you are not conscious ofexercising it, you do though. And in the use of Jesus' Name,you do exercise Faith, it is the unconscious faith, the faith thatis borne in upon us by evidences that convince us beyond theshadow of a doubt.

Any other kind of faith is abnormal. At the SecondComing of Christ, it will not require any act of faith on our partto be translated; neither will it require any effort to receiveimmortality, we shall simply be made immortal, we shall betranslated.

That is in the plan, in the eternal program of God. It willnot require any special faith to be resurrected, the resurrectionis in the program.

His ProgramNow, if we understand His program for today, the sick

would simply be healed the moment that sickness touchedthem.

"If the Spirit that raised up Christ Jesus from the deaddwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the deadshall also quicken, (or heal), your mortal bodies by His Spiritthat dwelleth in you."

This does not have reference to our Resurrection; itrefers to our bodies now (mortal means death-doomed). Ourbodies will not be mortal in the grave, neither will the spirit bein them then.

This is a part of the program, the Spirit dwells in us forthat purpose.

That is not the only purpose, but that is one of thereasons of His indwelling, to heal our physical bodies of thediseases that are continually attaching themselves to us. Whenwe understand this, we shall not be trying to exercise faith forour healing, or for any other need, we shall simply recognizethe fact that this healing, this Reed, is in the program is a partof it, and we shall accept what belongs to us.

Take this Scripture as an illustration. "Who His ownself bare our sins in His body upon the tree that we havingdied unto sin might live unto righteousness. By whose stripesye were healed," or by whose bruisings we are healed.

He bore our sins in His body on the tree and He diedbecause of those sins, and we believe that we died with Himthen we do not have to die again to sin.

We Are AliveHe was made alive, and we were made alive with Him.

We died to our sins, we died to our old nature, we died to ourdiseases, and we rose in the fullness of His life, free from ourold sin nature, free from our sins that we had committed, andfree from our diseases.

As we come to understand this, we know that our oldsin nature hasn't any right, any privilege, to reign over usbecause it is dead, and we will not accept any imitation of itthat Satan may in our ignorance impose upon us, neither willwe recognize any condemnation that might come to us throughany sins we may have committed in the past, for Christ borethem, and we need never bear them again, neither do we needto suffer any condemnation for them because He wascondemned for them, and He bore them.

Consequently, we are free, and there is, "therefore, now,no condemnation to us because we are in Christ Jesus." Thesame thing is true with our sicknesses. Isa. 53:4 "He bore oursicknesses and carried our pains." (correct translation)

He was made sick for us and bore our sicknesses; whenHe rose, the sickness had been put away and He rose inresurrection life; free from the dominion of sickness. Now,sickness hasn't any right to impose itself upon us and Satanhasn't any right to impose any diseases upon us.

We are free!

And when these diseases and sicknesses come, all we

need to do is treat them exactly the same as we treat our oldsins. The devil may try to put us under condemnation byreminding us of our past sins, but we say, "Satan, there is,therefore, now no condemnation upon us, for we are in ChristJesus. He has dealt with those sins and put them away, andyou cannot get them. You may bring back a photograph ofthem but you cannot get the actual real sin because it has beenput away."

My Legal RightsWhen He imposes diseases upon me, I have a right to

say to him, "Satan, those diseases were borne in the body ofJesus and you have no right to bring their photograph aroundhere, and frighten me with them.

"Those diseases were unconditionally put away, and Iam free from disease as the body of Jesus was when He rosefrom the dead. For I am in Christ Jesus and you cannot putthose things on me."

And if Satan should attack my body, all I have to do isto call my Father's attention to the fact, and the disease mustgo, because I am free! I know that "by His stripes I am healed."If I am healed, I am healed! I know that by His resurrection I amjustified, and I do not need to be rejustified: I am justified. Iknow that by His life I am made alive, and I am alive! I knowthat I died with Him; I know that I rose with Him; and I knowthat I am in Him.

I know that by His stripes I am healed; then I am healed,and if I am healed, I am well, thank God! I have no more to dowith my healing than I have to do with my resurrection, for Heis my resurrection! He is my healing. He said, "I am theresurrection and the life."

He is my resurrection; He is my life; He is my healing;He is my health; He is my victory; He is my all and in all. Now, Isimply recognize the fact that He healed me in Hissubstitutionary work, and because of that I am healed.

The hour is coming when this kind of knowledge will beso common that men and women who are in Christ and walkingin Him will be healed the moment they are afflicted, and theywill live in perfect health, in body as well as soul and spirit.

They will live like this until their bodies are worn outand they fall asleep in Christ. There is no more need of ourbearing about in our bodies our sicknesses than there is ofbearing about in our spiritual nature an unforgiven sin.

His Word TrueFor the very moment I confess my sins, "He is faithful

and righteous to forgive me," and when He forgives me, I amforgiven. On the same ground, the moment I confess that Satanhas put a disease or infirmity upon me, just that moment He isfaithful and righteous to heal me, and I am healed.

He healed me of my sin; He now heals me of mysickness, they both come from the same source. It requires nostruggle, no long drawn out siege of struggling after faith andtrying to believe. There is the written Word, and the EternalThrone of God is back of it.

That Word cannot fail any more than God can fail, antiwhen I confess my sins, I am forgiven.

If I refuse this, if 1 challenge it, I declare by thatchallenge or that refusal, that God is a liar, that His Word is nottrue; that all He has said in the Scripture is a lie. For all unbeliefis a challenge of the integrity of God.

Then this new kind of faith in Him becomes thestabilizer of one's whole spiritual nature.

It is a faith that grows out of the knowledge of God'sfaithfulness, of evidences given in the Word, of facts that havebecome a part of spiritual knowledge so that when the believeris "exercising faith" He unconsciously acts as he does whenwriting a check for money he knows is in the bank.

Then the greatest need of the hour is not more faith but

more knowledge that will produce an unconscious faith in ourgreat, loving Father-God.

The Place Confession HoldsThe Church has never given this vital subject a place in

its teaching and yet, answered prayer, the use of Jesus' nameand Faith are utterly dependent upon it.

"Wherefore, holy brethern, partakers of a heavenlycalling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of ourconfession." (Heb. 3:1)

Christianity is called our confession and in Heb. 4:14,He tells us to "hold fast our confession." The old version reads"profession," but the Greek means witnessing a confession ofour lips.

You understand Romans 10:9-10, "Because if thou shaltconfess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in thyheart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and withthe mouth confession is made unto salvation." You see theplace that confession holds in salvation.

It holds the same place in our Faith walk. Christianity isa Confession. It is our open confession of what we are inChrist, of what Christ is to us. Our Faith is gauged by ourconfession. We never believe beyond our confession.

It is not a confession of sin; it is the confession of ourplace in Christ, of our Legal Rights, of what the Father hasdone for us in Christ and what the spirit has done in usthrough the Word and what He is able to do through us. Thereis a grave danger of our having two confessions.

One would be the integrity of the Word and the otherwould be of our doubts and fears.

Every time we confess weakness and failure and doubtand fear, we go to the level of them. We may pray very ardentlyand very earnestly and declare in our prayers our faith in theWord and yet, the next moment we question whether He heardus or not, for we confess we have not the things for which weprayed.

Our last confession destroys our prayer. One asked meto pray for his healing. I prayed for him and then he said, "Iwant you to keep on praying for me." I asked them what hewished me to pray for. He said, "Oh, for my healing." I said,"Prayer will be of no value. You have just denied the Word ofGod."

The Word says, "That they that believe shall lay handson the sick and they shall recover, and whatsoever ye shall askin my name, that will I do." I prayed the prayer of Faith and hedenied it. By his confession, he annulled my prayer anddestroyed the effect of my faith.

Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word,and if you have prayed in Jesus' name; you are to hold fastyour confession. It is easy to destroy the' effect of your prayerby a negative confession.

THE NAME IN THE GOSPELSAND she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His

Name Jesus for it is He that shall save His people from theirsins." Matt. 1 :21. Little did Mary know the meaning of thatangelic visit nor of the command that His Name shall be calledJesus.

That Name has grown until today it fills the whole earth.That Name means justice, love, righteousness, civilization,invention, discovery, art, literature, music, health, happiness,home; and, yet, in our study we have discovered that thatName means even more.

"Behold, the virgin shall he with child and shall bringforth a Son, and they shall call His Name Immanuel (orIncarnation)." Isa. 7:14. Immanuel means "God with us" andGod with us means the Incarnate One. "For the Word wasmade flesh and dwelt among us," and it is the Name of thisIncarnate One that is engaging our attention now.

"And ye shall he hated of all men for My Name's sake."Matt. 10:22. Jesus knew the place His Name would hold amongmen. Men would love it enough to die for it; others would hateit enough to commit murder on account of it, this Name thatmakes sinners tremble and saints rejoice.

"And in Ills Name shall the Gentiles hope." Matt. 12:21.How true that is! The Name of Jesus has been the only Namethat would stop wars between nations. That Name bears within

it love, life, light, liberty, joy.

"And whoso shall receive one such little child in MyName receiveth Me." Matt. 18:5.

For the first time in human history, little children have afriend, little children can be received in Ills Name. And what ajudgment He pronounces upon anyone who injures or hurtsone of the little ones who have believed in Him or in Ills Name!

It is peculiarly precious the way Jesus links His Namewith the childhood of humanity.

The 20th verse carries us into the mystery of Christ'soneness with believers when they meet together. "For wheretwo or three are gathered together in My Name. there am I inthe midst of them."

"For many shall come in My Name. saving, I and theChrist' and shall lead many astray." Man 24:5. How well Jesusunderstood what His Name would mean to the world! He knewthat false teachers and imposters would come in His Name andHe warns the Church of the danger that shall confront Herdown through the ages.

"Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.baptizing them into the Name of the Father and of the Son andof the Holy Spirit." Matt. 28:19. This is the Great Commissionand the apostolic formula of baptism.

The Name In the Gospel of MarkIn the Gospel of Mark, there are but four references.

"John said unto Him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demonsin Thy Name; and we forbade him, because he followed not us.But Jesus said, Forbid him not; for there is no man who shalldo a mighty work in My Name, and he able quickly to speakevil of Me." Mark 9:38-39.

You see that the Name of Jesus was great even beforeHe died; that men were casting out demons and healing thesick in His Name before His death, resurrection, and ascensionto the right hand of the Father.

This in itself is a very striking fact and worthy of muchmeditation. "And ye shall be hated of all men for My Name'ssake; but he that endureth to the end, the same shall besaved." Mark 13:13. Jesus knew the hatred that His Namewould engender for His followers in the world and He preparesthem by this warning.

"And these signs shall accompany them that believe: inMy Name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak withnew tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink anydeadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay handson the sick, and they shall recover."

Mark 16:17-18. This is the Great Commission which Hegave to the disciples. In this Scripture Jesus specifies some ofthe things that Name will do. It almost bewilders us when wethink that the God of the universe will give to humanity the

right to use His Name, will give to men a legal right to use thepower and the authority of the Son of God.

That in that Name a mother can lay her hands upon herbaby when he is sick and take healing for him. The Greek heremeans "the believing ones" shall lay hands on the sick in thatName and they shall recover. That includes every child of God :no special gift, no special faith, just "the believing ones."

Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always unto the end ofthe age," and this is His method of being present today. He hasgiven them the use of His Name, and in the heathen nationswhere they go as heralds of His grace, they shall do as Paul didon the Island of Melita and many other fields.

In that Name they are to cast out demons; they are toheal the sick and perform other mighty miracles that will arrestthe attention of the people and cause them to ask, "Who is thisJesus in Whose Name you work today?"

God never intended there should ever be any change inthe methods or ministry down through the ages; only asnations developed, should these methods be broadened, butthe miraculous element enfolded in the Name of Jesus shouldbe the means of opening closed doors to the Churcheverywhere; the sick should be healed; the power of Satanbroken over men's lives and captives set free. All this is to bedone in the Name of this Unseen Saviour.

The Name in the Gospel of LukeThe Gospel of Luke has seven references; let us briefly

scan them. "Whosoever shall receive this little child in MyName receiveth Me: and whosoever shall receive Me receivethHim that sent Me: for he that is least among you all, the same isgreat." Luke 9:48. We have the same thought brought out inMatthew.

It is Jesus honoring the little child and giving to thelittle child its place in the assembly.

It is not enough that our children are taken into theSunday School but the child has its place in the Church andshould receive instructions, not from an unsaved SundaySchool teacher, but from a real man or woman of God. Anotherstriking suggestion is in this verse, "Whosoever shall receivethis little child in My Name receiveth Me." His Name then isequivalent to Himself. "In as mutch as ye do it unto one of theleast of these, my brethren, ye do it unto Me."

Jesus teaches us the sacredness of His Name. "Johnanswered and said, Master, we saw one casting out demons inThy Name: and we forbade rim, because he followeth not withus. But Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is notagainst you is for you." Luke 9:49-50.

Jesus said to John, "Forbid him not. Let him go on."Thank God for anyone who is being helped or blessed, whetherthey walk with us or not. "And the seventy returned with joy,saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in Thy

Name." Luke 10:17.

The disciples had an opportunity of seeing the powerof Jesus' Name before the Day of Pentecost.

"Take heed that ye be not led astray: for many shallcome in My Name, saying, I am he: and, The time is at hand: goye not after them." Luke 21 :8. Jesus knew that false prophetswould arise and impersonate Him. In the 12th verse of the samechapter, He said the disciples would be brought up beforekings and governors for His Name's sake.

"And that repentance and remission of sins should bepreached in His Name unto all the Nations, beginning fromJerusalem." Luke 24:47.

This is a part of the Great Commission that repentanceand remission of sins are to be preached in His Name. How fewof the evangelists and preachers have caught a glimpse of thismighty truth, the place of the Name of Jesus in evangelism

In the 8th chapter of Acts we read that when theylistened to Philip preaching the kingdom of God and the Nameof Jesus, they were led to accept Christ.

What a small place the Name of Jesus has in the modernChurch!

The Name in the Gospel of John"But as many as received Him, to them gave He the

right to become children of God, even to them that believe onHis Name." John 1:12.

Salvation here then comes by believing on the Name."Now when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, during thefeast, many believed on His Name, beholding His signs whichHe did." John 2:23.

Christianity would have a new element in it if we taughtthe people intelligently what it meant to believe ON the Nameas a sinner and then to believe IN the Name as a believer. As asinner, I believe ON the Name; as a believer, I am baptizedINTO it, and then I walk and live IN the Name; and this Man isthe Head of the Church.

Jesus is the Head: we are the Body. We are baptizedinto the Head. To the Head belongs the Name, and the Headgives us, the Body, the right to live, to walk, to use the powerof that Name. "He that believeth on Him is not judged: he thatbelieveth not hath been judged already, because he hath notbelieved on the Name of the only begotten Son of God." John3:18.

Judgment is coming to man because he has notbelieved on the Name. "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name,that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If yeshall ask anything in My Name, that will I do." John 14:13-14.This is the first time that man had ever been taught to pray in

the Name of a Mediator.

Here, Jesus gives to His disciples the unique privilegeof praying in His Name.

Up to that time, they had prayer through the HighPriest; now, they were to pray through this new High Priest.Wherever they go, whatever they do, they are to bear withthem the Name of this One Who is seated at the right hand ofthe Father; and Jesus says that the Father is glorified in theSon by our praying and asking in His Name.

"If ye shall ask anything in My Name, that will I do."

Jesus is seated there at the Father's right hand toendorse our petitions when they come tip to the Father in HisName. "That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Fattier in MyName, He may give it you." John 15:16.

"And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing. Verily, verily,I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, He willgive it you in My Name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in MyName: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be madefull." John 16:23-24.

This is the Great Charter Promise in the Name of Christ.

In this we can plainly see the legal foundation for awonderful prayer life for the Church, a legal right to use theName of Jesus without any restrictions.

If we are children of God, all that is in that Namebelongs to us.

It is not a question of our worthiness : it is a question ofHis standing in heaven, and as sons and daughters we take ourplace and claim our rights.

THE BOOK OF ACTSACTS 2:38, "Repent and be baptized every one of you,

in the Name of Jesus Christ." This first use of the Name ofJesus must have struck the Jews with a peculiar force.

Fifty days before, they had hung Him stark naked upona cross; now, three thousand of them cry out, "Men andbrethren, what shall we do?" Peter answers, "Repent ye and bebaptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ unto theremission of your sins."

This meant a break with Judaism, although it was notclearly in their minds yet, but to be baptized into that Name wasto put on that Name and bear the stigma of that Name amongtheir fellows.

The First Miracle in the NameIn the 3rd chapter, we get its first public use. Peter and

John are going up to the Temple to worship, (they had not yetbeen separated from the temple worship), and as they arrived atthe door of the temple which is called "Beautiful," they saw acripple lying in his dirt and helplessness, with outstretchedhands beseeching an offering.

Peter and John, fastening their eyes on him, said, "Lookon us." And he, expecting to receive something, looked up.Then said Peter, "Silver and gold have I none but what I have,that give I thee."

I can see the disappointed look followed by a mystifiedexpression in his eyes as he looked upon those two humblefishermen. Peter continued, "In the Name of Jesus Christ ofNazareth, walk!"

And immediately a thrill passed through his body; Peterreached down, grasped him by the hand and lifted him to hisfeet; and those ankles that had been useless from babyhoodwere filled with the strength of manhood. For the first time inhis life this man could leap, run, and walk.

During all of his babyhood days he had watched othersplaying while he himself was unable to take any part in theirsport, but now this impotent, useless member of societythrobbed with health and life. He rushed into the temple,leaping, jumping, and shouting praises to God; finally, heturned and grasped Peter and John by the hands while the

multitude gathered about them, and Peter declared, "Whyfasten ye your eyes upon us, as though by our own power wemade this man to walk.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of ourfathers hath glorified this Man Jesus Whom ye delivered upand denied in the face of Pilate when he determined to releasehim. But ye denied the Holy One and asked for a murderer to begranted unto you. Ye killed the Author of Life Whom Godraised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses. And on theground of faith in His Name hath His Name made this manstrong whom ye behold and know."

How the Early Church Used the NameThis is the first recorded miracle in the Name of Jesus.

Note how the Scripture reads "On the ground of faith in HisName hath His Name made this man strong, whom ye beholdand know. Yea, the faith which is through Him bath given Himthis perfect soundness in the presence of you all." Acts 3:16.

For the first time, we come in vital contact with thisstrange power vested in the Name of Jesus.

This miracle created a sensation; the disciples werearrested, put in jail until the morrow. Through this miracle thenumber of disciples had increased to about five thousand."And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and eldersand scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; and Annasthe high priest was there, and Caiaphas, and John, andAlexander, as were the kindred of the high priest.

And when they had set them in the midst, theyinquired, "By what power, or in what name, have ye donethis?" Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them,"Ye rulers of the people, and elders, if we this day are examinedconcerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by whatmeans this man is made whole; be it known unto you all, and toall the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ ofNazareth, Whom ye crucified, Whom God raised from the dead,even in Him doth this man stand here before you whole. He isthe stone which was set at nought of you the builders, whichwas made the head of the corner. And in none other is theresalvation: for neither is there any other Name under heaven,

that is given among men, wherein we must be saved." Acts 4:5-12.,

Consternation in the SanhedrinThey wanted to know what power or what means they

used, or by what name they had done that mighty act. Petertold them it was in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth whom theycrucified, Whom God had raised from the dead that in HisName did this man stand before them whole. Then the Councilacted.

They said, "What shall we do to these men; For thatindeed a notable miracle hath been wrought through them, ismanifest to all that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it."Acts 4:16.

No matter how much we may wish to deny it, the factstands before us: a man who had been impotent for years wassuddenly healed in the Name of Jesus. No miracle like this hadever happened before in human history; it shook the Sanhedrinto the foundation, their wisest men were in confusion; thedisciples were ordered aside for a moment while the Sanhedrinconferred, and in their fear they threatened:

"But that it spread no further among the people, let usthreaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in thisName. And they called them, and charged them not to speaknor teach at all in the Name of Jesus." Acts 4:17-18.

It does not seem that they objected so much to theteaching of His resurrection but they feared the power of thatName, and they charged them not to teach nor preach in thatName and sent them out.

They went back to their own company and told thestory. Then we have that remarkable prayer in which they said"And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings : and grant untoThy servants to speak Thy Word with all boldness, while Thoustretchest forth Thy hand to heal; and that signs and wondersmay be done through the Name of Thy Holy Child Jesus." Acts4:29-30.

The disciples now expected that signs and wonderswere to follow the preaching in the Name of Jesus. "And theplace was shaken where they were, and they were all filled withthe Holy Spirit and spake the Word of God with boldness."Acts 4:31.

"And by the hands of the apostles were many signsand wonders wrought among the people. * And there cametogether the multitude from the cities round about Jerusalem,bringing sick folk and them that were vexed with uncleanspirits: and they were healed every one." Acts 5:12, 16.

Jail Doors Were OpenedThey were arrested again and put in a ward but the

angel of the Lord opened the prison and told them to go andstand in the temple and preach all the words of this Life. In themorning they were brought before the Council and the HighPriest asked them, saying "We strictly charged you not toteach in this Name, and behold you have filled Jerusalem withyour teaching and intend to bring this man's blood upon us."Acts 5:28.

Then came one of the most dramatic events in the EarlyChurch: when the Council was divided and the power of Godwas so manifest among the people. Gamaliel warned them notto touch them, said they might find themselves fighting againstGod.

But in the face of this, they beat the disciples, andcharged them not to speak in the Name of Jesus and let themgo.

"They departed from the presence of the Council,rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor forthe Name." Acts 5:41. No student can read this section of theBook of Acts without being impressed with the large place theName of Jesus held in the Early Church.

Following the death of Stephen and the preaching ofthe Word by Philip in Samaria, we come to this significantstatement. "But when they believed Philip preaching good

tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the Name of JesusChrist, they were baptized, both men and women." Acts 8:12.

He not only preached the kingdom but he preached theName of Jesus. It seems that the Early Church devoted the timeto instructing the people in regard to the use of the Name ofJesus. They must have understood that they had what wewould call today a legal Right to use the Name of Jesus.

The Name for HealingThey used it in connection with the sick; it would seem

that they did not pray for the sick especially but that they laidtheir hands upon them in Jesus' Name, or as at the BeautifulGate, they said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, riseand walk."

At Paul's conversion in Acts 9:15-16 where God issending Ananias to baptize Paul, He says this "For he is achosen vessel unto Me, to bear My Name before the Gentilesand kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him howmany things he must suffer for My Name's sake."

That Name of Jesus was the battle axe in the ministry ofPaul. That Name was in the hands of Paul what the rod was inthe hand of Moses. If the Egyptians could have stolen thatrod, they would have stripped Moses of his weapon.

Now, if the Gentiles and Jews could stop the Churchfrom using the Name of Jesus, they would rob the Church of itssupernatural power, and like Sampson when his hair was cut,they would be common men.

The Modern Church, having lost the power of the Nameof Jesus, is reduced to the position of the shorn Sampson. InActs 9:27-29, we read "But Barnabas took him, and brought himto the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen theLord in the way, and that He had spoken to him, and how atDamascus He had preached boldly in the Name of Jesus. AndHe was with them, going in and out of Jerusalem preaching

boldly in the Name of the Lord."

That means more than simply preaching the Gospel, aswe understand it today.

Again, in the Council at Jerusalem, as recorded in Acts15:14, James said

"Brethren, hearken unto me: Symeon hath rehearsedhow God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a peoplefor His Name."

A People Gathered About the NameThe Gentile Church is a people taken out of the world

unto the Name of Jesus, and we are a people who are gatheredabout the Name, when we meet as an assembly or a church, weare gathered about the Name of Jesus.

It is a supernatural body, clothed with supernaturalpower gathered about a supernatural Name.

The Lord have mercy upon us! How we have fallen fromour high estate. One can go into the average church orassembly and hear men and women pleading with God for faith,bemoaning their weakness, confessing their inability to meetthe crisis of the hour, when if they only knew the truth, theywould gather about the Name of Jesus, this mighty Name thathas enwrapped within it the Omnipotence of God, the power ofHim Who bore it, and they know it not!

Oh, if they only knew how to turn on the switch andreceive the light, and glory, and might of Omnipotence which isat their disposal. In Acts 16:16-18 we have a striking illustrationof the use of the Name "And it came to pass, as we were goingto the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit ofdivination met us, who brought her masters much gain bysooth-saying.

The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying,These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaimunto you the way of salvation. And this she did for many days.But Paul being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I

charge thee in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.And it came out that very hour."

The girl was delivered, the apostles arrested; then camethe mighty miracle of the opening of the jail at Philippi whenthe jailer fell trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas crying,"What shall we do to be saved?"

They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thoushalt be saved."

This same Name that had liberated the girl from thepower of the demon in the afternoon now has led this man intosonship privileges in the family of God.

The Name of Jesus meant more to the Early Church thanit does to us; it had a place in their ministry that we do not giveit in these days.

Have we anything to take its place? They tell us thateducation will take its place; that the Church no longer needsthe supernatural power of God. They reason thus: That wehave outgrown the teaching of the Holy Spirit and that thewisdom of man is to take the place of the power of the Name ofChrist; that that Name has been stripped of its power becausewe through our colleges, universities, and our great intellectualdevelopment have outgrown God, and we can perform mentalmiracles so that God's physical miracles are unnecessary.

Shame upon us! We have become an Apostate Church;we are groveling in the dust; we are held in bondage to ourignorance. Israel when carried into captivity by the

Babylonians is typical of the Church that has been carried intoa Babylonish captivity by the world forces.

Nothing but a Supernatural God will ever deliver us!How little we realize that our vain preaching and our vainwriting are simply the laughing stock of the Enemy.

One mighty miracle today in the Name of Jesus Christ isworth more than a hundred modernistic sermons that are beingpreached in many churches.

Has God Lost His Power?Has Jesus gone out of business? Have we any record

anywhere that God said the Name of Jesus is no longerneeded? That colleges, universities, and Scholasticism will takeits place ? Let us read of another striking event in Acts 19:11-17: "God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his bodyhand kerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them,and the evil spirits went out.

But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, tookupon themselves to speak over them that had the evil spirits,the Name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by JesusWhom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of oneSceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this. And the evil spiritanswered and said unto them, Jesus I know, and Paul I know;but who are ye?

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped onthem, and mastered both of them, and prevailed against them,so that they fled out of that house, naked and wounded. Andthis became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, that dwelt atEphesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the Name of the LordJesus was magnified."

Paul's ministry in the Name of Jesus was sooutstanding, the miracles so pronounced, that even wickedmen, sorcerers, attempted to use it; and that Name, through themighty thing." that were wrought, was glorified in Ephesus.

Would that the Name of Jesus could be so glorifiedtoday in the churches and assemblies! It would be if thebelievers knew their legal Rights and knew how to enjoy them.In Acts 26:9 Paul in his defense says: "I verily thought withinmyself that I ought to do many things contrary to the Name ofJesus of Nazareth."

Notice the place that Paul gives the Name in thisScripture -that he thought he ought to do many things contraryto the Name! If we were to draw a conclusion from the use andplace of the Name in the Book of Acts, what would we say?

The Name of Jesus actually took the place of theAscended Lord; wherever Jesus would have been glorified byHis personal presence, that Name took His place.

May the Lord open our blinded eyes!

That Name has lost none of its authority, none of itspower, and the effort to rob us of some of the major portions ofScripture by a false dispensational division of Scripture failsutterly; for in Paul's ministry with the Gentiles and his epistlesto the Gentiles, he gives the Name of Jesus a place thatabsolutely refutes the entire teaching of those who would putthe power of the Name of Jesus over into the kingdom period.

No! The Name of Jesus belongs to us NOW. It is ourlegal Right; that Name belongs to us. How rich would be theChurch today in power, and experience, and grace, if She knewHer privileges and arose ill that Name and dared take them!

THE NAME IN THE EPISTLESTHE use of the Name in the Epistles is very illuminating.

“Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth, even them thatare sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints with all that callupon the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirLord and ours." I Cor. 1 :2. "With all that call upon the Name."

In those early days, the believers knew the value andplace and authority of that Name, they appreciated It. Theywalked and lived in the conscious freshness of the power ofthe Name of Jesus.

When they made an appeal to the brethren, they usedlanguage like this "Now, I beseech you, brethren, through theName of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing,that there he no division among you." Their appeal was in theName of Jesus.

In I Cor. 5:4 we read, "In the Name of our Lord JesusChrist. ye being gathered together." Here, the Church is facingan internal trouble, one of the young men has committed a verygrave misdemeanor.

And Paul tells them that when they have gatheredtogether in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, they are todeliver such an one over to Satan for the destruction of theflesh. that the spirit may be saved in the day of Christ Jesus.

That Name had the power of Life and of Death in thosedays.

"And such were some of you: but ye were washed, butye were sanctified. but ye were justified in the Name of theLord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God." I Cor. 6:11.

Here, they are washed, sanctified, justified in that Name.

The farther you go in the Epistles, the more deeply youare impressed with the power, and dignity, and grace of Godvested in that Name.

"Giving thanks always for all things in the Name of ourLord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father." Eph. 5 :20.

Even our praises and our worship cannot go to Goddirect they must come in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.That does not hinder us from worshipping and praising TestisHimself but when we praise the Father, it must be done in theName of our Lord Testis Christ. "Wherefore also God highlyexalted Him, and gave unto Him the Name which is above everyname; that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, ofbeings in heaven and beings on earth and beings under theearth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christis Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:9-11.

God has highly exalted the Name of Jesus in the threeworlds, every knee bows; all the angelic beings bow before theName of this Wonder Man Jesus. No Name is so great, noName has so many glories attached to it as the Name of Jesus.

On earth the Name of Jesus has steadily grown from theday when He lay an infant in the manger, and Mary lookingupon Him remembered what the angels had said: "And His

Name shall be called Jesus, for it is He Who shall save Hispeople from their sins."

From the cradle with its prophecy, to the cross with itstragedy, and sweeping down through the ages, that Name hassteadily grown until today, the Jew, the Gentile, and heathen ofall lands are compelled to recognize that Name.

No man writes a deed in Christian Lands who does nothonor the Name of Jesus. The date on that document, showingthe year of our Lord (A. D.) must be written.

The Lord has so arranged it that everyone regardless ofhis belief must acknowledge the birth of Christ every time hedates a letter.

Wherever that Name has become known, honored, andvenerated, habitations have changed to homes; the mother'sposition from that of a slave to that of the honored queen,girlhood from being despised to being honored and loved.

Wherever that Name is honored, educationalinstitutions spring up, inventions, scientific investigation, anddiscoveries are fostered. This Name that men have ignored andtrampled upon during this dispensation will he the Name thatwill fill the hearts of wicked men with fear.

Do All Things in the Name."And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the

Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Fatherthrough Him." Col. 3:17.

In Ephesians, He told us when we worshipped theFather, it must be through the Name, but now, "whatsoever yedo in word or in deed, all must he done in the Name."

This ends the controversy in regard to praying toJesus. This gives Jesus His position; this exalts the Name inour daily life.

Whatsoever we do in word or in deed must be done inthat Name, and in that Name only. In 2 Thess. 1:11-12 we haveanother view of this: "To which end we also pray always foryou that our God may count you worthy of your calling, andfulfill every desire of goodness and every work of faith, withpower; that the Name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified inyou, and ye in Him."

This sets forth more clearly perhaps, than any otherScripture we have used, the place of the Name in our daily lifeand ministry; that this Name may be glorified in our lives, andglorified through our ministry. How could it be glorified morethan by using it as the Early Church used it?

"Now, we command you, brethren, in the Name of ourLord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from everybrother that walketh disorderly, and not after the traditionwhich they received of us." 2 Thess. 3:6. Here, Paul commands

the Church, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to withdraw fromevery brother that walks disorderly.

How mighty that Name must have been in the mind ofthe Early Church! "Through Him, then, let us offer up asacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lipswhich make confession to His Name." Heb. 13:15. Their publictestimony was a confession of that Name.

I can understand now what it means in Acts 8: where itspeaks of Philip preaching the kingdom of God and the Nameof Jesus. They preached the Name; they heralded the power,might, and wonder of that Name. They appreciated what thepromise of Jesus meant when He said, "Hitherto, ye have askednothing in my Name."

They went out and suffered for the Name. I understandmore clearly how the Jews felt when they forbade the disciplespreaching any more in that Name. Afterwards, when thedisciples were arrested, they said, "Did we not straightwayforbid you preaching in this Name, and you have filledJerusalem with it." They knew its value, they lived in thefreshness of its power, and those Jews knew its power too.

In James 2:7 we read, "Do not they blaspheme thehonorable Name by which ye are called?" Tames called it "thathonorable Name."' The Name that had wrought such mightythings through all the country was looked up to with honor,respect, and love.

"Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of

the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oilin the Name of the Lord." James 5:14.

The sick were anointed in that Name for their healing."If ye are reproached for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye." 1Pet. 4:14. They gladly bore the reproach of that Name.

You can see very clearly that the Name of Jesus held aposition in the front rank of their teaching; and whenever theyentered a heathen village or city, they preached to them thatName as Philip preached it down at Samaria.

They let the people know that the Name of Jesus hadpower to heal the sick, cast out demons, perform miracles andprodigies, that their God was represented in that Name.

"I write unto you, My little children, because your sinsare forgiven you for His Name's sake." 1 John 2:12. Here, theName is used in another sense, but with what a wealth ofsuggestiveness.

Sins are forgiven for His Name's sake, for the sake ofthat Name. "And this is His commandment, that we shouldbelieve in the Name of His Son Jesus Christ and love oneanother." I John 3:23.

The command that we should believe in the Name isliterally that we should believe the Name, the preposition "in"is not the Greek. That we should believe the Name, believe itfor what it stands, believe it for all that it means in the heart ofthe Father, that we believe the Name!

Reader, ask your heart this question, "Do I believe theName of Jesus? What does it mean to my life?" "These thingshave I written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternallife, even unto you that believe ON the Name of the Son ofGod." I John 5:13.

Here is a contrast between "in" and "on".

We believe ON the Name for salvation; we believe INthe Name for power in service.

Our position as believers in Christ gives us a legal rightto pray in the Name of Jesus and take out of that Name thewealth of love, and riches, and grace, and salvation, andredemption that belongs to us.

We see by the teachings in the Epistles what Jesusmeant when He nave the great promise of the use of His Name.The Name of Jesus became the center around which everythingwas builded in their missionary activities. They lived, andwrought, and praised in that Name.

That Name meant food and raiment; it meantdeliverance from the hand of their enemies: it meant power overdemons and diseases; it meant worship, and praise, and accessto God. Enwrapped in that mighty Name is the invisible powerand miracle working might of the Church of Jesus Christ today.

THE NAME IN DAILYCONFLICT

IN THIS Name lies the very essence of Christianity; it isthe one thing which differentiates it from all other religions. It isthe one Name that challenges an adjective to qualify it.

While here in the flesh, Jesus was the all, powerful One;God always heard His prayers, and permitted Him to useOmnipotence as He willed. Before He went away, He promisedthat this same Right to use the Omnipotence of God should beleft on earth, available to man.

He told the disciples not to leave Jerusalem until theywere endued or clothed with power from on high. The HolySpirit was to come into them and enable them to use His Namein the will of God, so that it would be as though Christ wereagain in the flesh exercising this Divine power, only in a largersense, because there will be so many using His Name.

Filled with the Spirit, they preached in this Name withawful power.

The sick were healed, demons were cast out, and thedead were raised; in this Name a serpent's bite became themeans of the inhabitants of a whole island receiving JesusChrist as their Saviour.

In this Name came the Gift of Tongues which enabledall nations on the Day of Pentecost to hear the glad tidings of

remission of sins.

He Willed Us His NameAll this was in fulfillment of the words spoken by Jesus

Christ before His ascension.

"In My Name shall they cast out demons; they shallspeak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and ifthey drink any deadly thing it shall in no wise harm them; theyshall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."

This power was not in the Holy Spirit, but in the. Spirit'senabling the disciples to use the Name of the Lord JesusChrist, the Son of God. All power is in the Name of the risenMan Christ Jesus Who is seated at the Father's right hand inthe heavens.

The power is not in fasting or consecration, not in longprayers, but it is in the simple Name of Jesus of Nazareth, theSon of God. Men are seeking power, they call it Pentecostalpower they seek it in all directions but the right one; it is in theName, seek it there.

If you learn to use the Name according to the Word, inthe power of the Spirit, you have the secret which shook theworld through the apostles.

How to Use His NameYou must be a scriptural believer, a child of God,

obedient to the Word. You must come to God, the Father,through Christ. Don't pray to Jesus; don't pray to the HolySpirit; never ask for the SAKE of Jesus, always pray in HisName.

Be definite; don't insult the Father by indefiniteramblings but ask for what you want.

Approach the Father as a son, not as a slave or servantyou are His child, He is your loving Father; He loves you, youlove Him and are free and happy in His presence.

Your chief desire is that He may receive glory so talkplainly with Him, open your heart, lay your desire before Hiseyes and make your case clear; let Him see that it is for Hisglory and the good of others.

Then clinch it by making your worthy claim in the Nameof His Son Who sits at His right hand, reminding Him of His,"promise, "Whatsoever you ask the Father IN MY NAME, Hewill give it you."

The Divine AdvocateNow, you have a clear case; the Lord Jesus is there to

present your claim.

You have, by asking in His Name, made Christ yourAdvocate, and now the case belongs to Him.

Your humble, simple prayer, made in this scriptural way,becomes Christ's prayer at God's right hand; you drop out ofthe question and the mighty Advocate takes your case. Thisshows us what power we have up there and down here.

Be fearless after this; challenge your mountain in thatall sufficient Name; it must move.

Sin, sickness, circumstances, Satan, all must yield tothat Name. Use this NAME though you tremble when you doit, it is not you, but the power behind the Name; you do notneed to feel its power, you know it, and everything must flee atthis all-conquering Name.

"Hitherto ye have asked nothing in My Name; ask, andye shall receive, that your joy be made full."

The Simplicity of PrayerThis is one of the startling statements of the Gospel:

"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, that will Ido." Notice Jesus said, "You ask, and I will do it."

This is a most wonderful thing, prayer simplified.

You do the asking," Jesus says, "and I will do thedoing." Jesus says all authority has been given unto Him inheaven and on earth. Jesus' power is unlimited, and now Hechallenges you to do unlimited asking. He is big enough to doanything you ask Him to do.

His authority is great enough to see that any requestfrom you is honored. For that unsaved friend, He says, "Youask for his salvation and I will do it." It may be your church iscold and your pastor as bound as Lazarus in the grave clothesof convention, yet you ask and Jesus says, "I will do it."

He will warm the Church. You ask for a revival, Jesuswill "do it." Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father andwhatsoever you ask of the Father in His Almighty Name, Hesays, "I will do it." That loved one is sick; ask for healing, andas surely as God is on His throne, so surely must He do it.

You ask for the finances for that undertaking for theLord: your business is to ask; His business is to see that it isdone. Behind everything stand these words of Christ, "I will doit."

There is no reason for our weakness; there is no reason

for our sickness. There is no reason for a fruitless Church orministry. There is no reason for powerless lives.

You resolve your life into the service of asking,challenging the Omnipotence of the living, reigning Christ andHe will take care of His end of the deal.

You are a partner with Him now; you need not write"limited" to this partnership, because His company is notlimited: He is able to meet the demands; He is able to financeany undertaking. The great and mighty Christ is willing for youto ask that He may give. Weakness is a crime now, poverty ofspirit a sin, all you need to do is ask and He will act.

How to PrayJesus tell us how to pray "when ye pray, say, Our

Father." We are not to pray to Jesus. That does not exclude theprivilege of joy, and fellowship, and the communion with Himnor the praise and worship of Him, but when we have a specialpetition, our prayer shall be addressed to the Father in theName of Jesus.

Not "for Jesus' sake" for that would mean to do it forJesus' sake rather than for the sake of the one that needs it.The prayer shall be addressed simply to Our Father, in Jesus'Name; that guarantees the Father's answer and Jesus'endorsement and intercession.

I know that the habit of praying to Jesus is verywidespread, but if we want the truth and we desire to pray insuch a manner that we can be sure of our answer, then we mustobey the Scriptures and pray as they teach us.

You see Jesus' Name was to take the place of Jesus.What the rod was in the hands of Moses, the Name of Jesus isin the hands of the weakest child of God. It was not that Moseswas great but that the rod was great. It is not that the believeris great but that the Name of Jesus is great.

The use of that Name is promised to every believer andevery believer has a right to lay hands on the sick in that Name.The believer has a right to use it in every condition of lifewhere the Father's presence and help are necessary.

The fact is that the Name of Jesus in the hands of every

believer should be the same as though Jesus Himself werepresent and operating. Jesus has given us a legal right to useHis Name. He has given to us the Power of Attorney and thePower of Attorney in the legal and business world is identicalwith the presence of the person who gave it.

It is just as though Jesus said, "When you pray in MyName, that gives Me an opportunity to begin to work, and inthat way I may glorify My Father.

If you don't pray in My Name, you don't give Me anopportunity to manifest My power."

In this way, both the Father and the Son become vitallyinterested in the petition that we make. You are praying to theFather and you are praying in the Name of His Son.

CONTRAST OF SENSE KNOWLEDGEFAITH AND REVELATION FAITH

SENSE knowledge faith is based upon physicalevidence. One believes in what they can see, hear or feel. Weknow that we have the Holy Spirit because we have hadphysical evidences to prove it.

Multitudes have taken this attitude and have beenunhappily deceived. Had they based their confidence upon theWord of God regardless of all sense knowledge evidences, lifewould have been another thing for them.

Others when they have prayed for finances, have notbelieved the Word until they could see the evidences. As onesaid, "When I see the money, then I will believe the Word."

You see, that is not believing at all, because one needsnot believe what they can see.

Faith is giving substance to things you cannot see, feelor hear. One says, "I know that I am healed, because the pain isgone."

He did not say, "I know I am healed because the Wordsays, `By His Stripes, I am healed'." His faith was not in whatGod had said, but in what he could see, feel or hear.

These people give the Word a second place in theirlives. They give to their body, the home of the senses, the firstplace.

One says, "I know that I am saved, because I haverepented of my sins. I have given up all of my bad habits."Every one of these things that he claims for his salvation arethings that he did himself. He has given no Scriptural evidenceof his salvation. He has depended upon physical evidencesrather than the Word of God.

After a while he makes the discovery that the evidencesof the senses cannot satisfy the craving of the spirit. Senseknowledge philosophy has gained control of the Church, but itcannot answer the cry of the human spirit. The human spiritseeks God as the flower seeks the sun.

Basing our faith upon what we have done and countingmore on experiences than upon the Word eventually leads usinto darkness and doubt. Acting on reason instead of theWord means to trust in man instead of God's Word.

"Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, that makethflesh his arm." Trusting in the faith of some other person isdangerous. We should trust in the Word of God ourselves.Most people who are untaught in the Word are seeking forsomeone who can the prayer of faith for them. The prayer offaith may deliver temporarily, but unbelief will annul the effectof their prayer eventually.

It is having faith, believing in your own faith, trusting inthe Word of God for yourself that will put you over. It is nottalking about faith, or the need of faith, but it is restingimplicitly in the living Word.

The prayer for faith will necessarily be a prayer of unbelief. Consequently, there can be no answer for it. Then yourpraying for faith is simply unbelief attempting to get what theWord alone can give.

You understand that simple confidence in the Word isnever sensible to the man who lives in the realm of the senses,for they only believe what they can see, hear or understand.

Faith is giving substance to things that senseknowledge cannot understand or see.

It lifts one out of the realm of the senses into the realmof the recreated human spirit.

Faith is always limited, as it was with Martha andThomas. Martha said, "His body decayeth."

Thomas said, "Unless I can see the wounds and put myfingers into the wounds, I will not believe."

This kind of faith is commended by our modernreligious leaders, but this is not the faith mentioned by Jesus orby the writers of the New Testament.

We have been trained to believe in the skill of men. Wehave more confidence in the surgeon than we have in theWord and because of that, we see little manifestations of thereal faith in the Living Word, for the skill of man. and what wecall science, has taken the place of the Word in the hearts ofthe people. Their faith is in man and they honor man with theirlips.

Their confession is not that the Word of God is true,but that man and his words are true. You see, they honor Godwith their lies, but they trust in the arm of flesh with theirhearts.

Mental AssentThis assenting to the fact that God cannot fail to help

its at a crisis period and yet, at the same time, turning to theworld for assistance is a dangerous symptom. Mental assent isone of the most dangerous of the enemies of a life of faith. Itlooks and sounds so religious. It will go so far as to say, "Ibelieve in the verbal inspiration of the Bible. I am contendingfor the faith once delivered to the saints."

Yet, they dare not act on the Word; they do not give itits place, they merely talk about its integrity. The MentalAssenter is in the gravest of danger. He is where God cannotreach him; but where Satan can enter into his inner counsel. Hetherefore loses his rights and privileges in Christ.

Acting On the WordThe greatest battle that any child of God will ever fight

is the battle of Faith. We often wonder why it is so hard tobelieve God. The reason is that we are surrounded by anantagonistic atmosphere that is presided over by the enemy ofall righteousness; we live in his unreal world; we aresurrounded by currents of unbelief so subtle that almost onedoes not realize then, and so resistless that only a few ever riseabove them. To believe in God for finances is a continualstruggle against the materialistic currents that buffet us.

To believe in Christ for victory over sin is a battleduring every hour of consciousness, with the spiritual hosts ofdarkness. To believe in God for the physical body when one isill is to put in a battle against the centuries of trust in medicine.So it is not at all strange that so many break down in their faith-life and we should not be harsh or censorious against thosewho fail.

Faith and BelievingFaith is a noun; Believe is a verb, an analysis of these

two words may help you in trusting the Lord. Believing, beinga verb, is an action word, it really means "taking"; to believe ina Biblical sense means "to take", "to grasp. To believe Jesusmeans to take Jesus for all that the Scriptures declare Him tobe. To believe on Christ as a Saviour means to take Christ as aSaviour; to believe in Christ as a healer means to take Him asyour healer and recognize Him as your healer.

Believing is an act of the will; when I believe, I haveacted, having acted, I have reached what is called Faith. Faithis a noun. I take a step, having taken the step, I have arrived.

Arriving is Faith. To believe, then, is to act on the Wordof God. Faith is action. Doubting is refusing to act on theWord.

There are two kinds of Unbelief: first, a refusing to acton the knowledge of the Word that we have. This can be calledunpersuadableness, we refuse to be persuaded to act on whatwe know to be true; we refuse to act in the light of knowledge.

The other kind of Unbelief arises from lack ofknowledge of the Word. We do not know; hence, we cannotact. We do not understand; hence, we are afraid to act. Wewould act, but we do not know how to act. The cure for this isknowledge; the cure for the other is obedience.

THE NAME IN BAPTISMWHEN a Believer is baptized into the Name of the Lord

Jesus, He puts on Christ, as Paul tells us in Galatians 3:27. "Foras many of you as were baptized into Christ, did put on Christ."

Baptism in this sense, is equivalent to marriage. Whenthe wife puts on marriage she takes her husband's name andenters into her husband's possessions and has legal rights inhis home. So when the believer is baptized into the Name of theLord Jesus, he puts on the Name of the Lord Jesus.

He not only puts on the Name, but he takes his legalrights and privileges in Christ.

When we are baptized into the Name of the Father, itgives us the place of a child and all the privileges of a child, allthe inheritance and wealth of the child.

We are baptized into the protection and care andfellowship of the God of the universe as our Father.

We take on all that union means. We have the standingof a Son, the privilege of a Son, the responsibilities of a Son.We have become by that baptism a joint heir with Jesus, andan heir of God. We have entered into the wealth of aninheritance from the God of the universe.

When we are baptized into the Name of the Holy Spirit,we are baptized into the Name, wealth, power, wisdom andglory of God's representatives on the earth, all the Spirit has we

are baptized into. We have become a fellowshipper of Hisgrace, His tenderness, His wisdom, His ability, His power, Hislife.

So when we are baptized into the Name of the LordJesus, all that that Name stands for in heaven is ours; all themighty victories that Jesus won in His death, and resurrectionare ours.

What does it mean to be baptized into the Name? Takethis scripture: "Baptizing them into the Name of the Father, andinto the Name of the Son, and into the Name of the HolySpirit." Spiritually it means this if it means anything: That weare baptized into all that Name means in the Plan ofRedemption, we are baptized into the Finished work of Christ.

Christ Our FullnessOf His fullness we have received, and in Him we are full

or complete. All the grace that was manifest in Christ enwrapsus, enfolds us, we are in it. All the perfections and beauties inthe character and life of Jesus are ours. Paul says: "Ye arecomplete in Him."

It means in the mind of Paul that the completeness, thefullness, the perfection of Christ was all reckoned unto us. Paulsaid: "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put onChrist." Think of the responsibilities attached to it! Think ofthe glories enwrapped in it! Think of the blessings that accruefrom it To be baptized into the Name of Christ, and the puttingon of Christ, bearing the Name of Christ, is the greatest honorthat heaven can confer upon a human.

What mighty works can be wrought through the HolyChild Jesus! The Lord lifts us up, the Lord enables us, by Hisgrace, to enter into our inheritance and to assume ourresponsibilities in His wonderful family! He won no victory andHe won no triumph in His substitutionary work that was not forthe benefit of the church.

Our InheritanceAll that Name stands for, the believer stands for in the

presence of the Father.

You are baptized into the legal right to use the Name.

You are baptized into the legal privilege of that Name.You are baptized into all the responsibilities of a Son vestedwith prerogatives of that mighty Name.

God help us by the power of the Spirit to enter into theriches of our inheritance in Him.

When He said, "All authority is given unto me inheaven and on earth I send you out as heralds", then thatauthority He had is ours; we stand as His representatives. Hisrighteousness is ours, His love is ours; all the graces thatadorned His beautiful life are ours.

When we put on Christ in baptism, we are by His graceable to enjoy all the graces.

As believers, all these riches, all these graces are ours.No special act on the part of God, no special act or preparationon our part: by faith, we accept Christ as our Saviour and Lordand when we did, all the wealth and riches in Christ Jesusbecame ours automatically.

We stand clothed in the rights, privileges, and powersof the Son of God.

A Three-fold MeaningRom. 6:4 "We were buried therefore with him through

baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the deadthrough the glory of the Father, so we also might walk innewness of life."

Baptism has a three-fold significance. First: It is thedeath and burial of the past.

Second: It is a resurrection into a new relationship.Third: It is a union with the one in whose Name we have beenbaptized. We are baptized into the Name of the Father.

This means sonship with all the privileges that comewith a relationship of such a person as the Father-God.

It means that we have died to all our previousrelationships, that from now on our life is dependent upon Him.To be baptized into the Holy Spirit means that I have died tomy past, my old relationships are severed, I am raised in Him, tolive and walk in fellowship with Him.

His wisdom is to take the place of my ignorance; Hisstrength is to take the place of my weakness; His goodness isto take the place of my failures. In other words, I am so fullyidentified and so completely at one with Him that it can nolonger be I that live but He that liveth His life in me.

Baptizing into the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ is evenricher and fuller than either of these, it comprehends all that isin them with additions. When I am baptized into Christ, I put on

Christ. I am now legally before the world, and before heaven aChristian.

Baptism in this sense is equivalent to marriage. Whenthe wife puts on marriage she takes her husband's name andenters into her husband's possessions and has legal rights inher husband's home.

When the believer is baptized into the Name of Christ,he puts on all that is in Christ.

He not only puts on the Name but takes his legal Rightsand privileges in Christ.

When a wife is married into the name of the husband,she is married into his wealth, honor, and glory and becomesidentified with him in all that he was or ever will be.

So when we are baptized into the Name of the LordJesus, we are baptized into all that Name stands for, all itswealth, all its honor, all its power, all its past, present andfuture glory. All that that Name stands for in heaven is ours: allthe mighty victories He won in His death, suffering, andconquest in hell and His resurrection are ours.

All, All, Is OursHe won no victory, He won no triumph in His

substitutionary work that was not for the benefit of thoseunited to Him in baptism. All that Name stands for before theFather belongs to the believer. We are baptized into the LegalRight to use the Name, into the Legal Privileges of that Name,into all the responsibility of a son, vested with the prerogativesof that mighty Name.

When He said, "All authority is given unto Me inheaven and in earth," and, "I send you out as heralds," thenthat authority He had is ours, we stand as His representatives,we go out into this world bearing' His Name. Thus instead ofour bearing the Name, the Name actually bears and succors us.

We are baptized into His righteousness, into Hisresurrection, power, and glory.

Now, His righteousness is ours; His grace is ours; Hislove is ours; His power is ours; yes, He Himself is ours. Howrich we are!

Now to use this Name does not require any special orunusual Faith because it is ours.

As believers, all the riches and graces are ours, nospecial act on the part of God, no special preparation on ourpart is necessary when some great crisis arises, that Name isours, given to us legally to use against the host of God'senemies, and we stand clothed in the Rights, privileges, andpowers of the sons of God.

We do not have to exercise any conscious Faith, all wehave to do is to use the Name.

The heart can hardly take it in, that when we werebaptized into that Name, we were baptized into the fullness, thecompleteness, the perfections of Jesus Christ. That of HisFullness have we all received and grace upon grace.

IDENTIFICATION WITHCHRIST

THE glorious fact of our Identification with Christ is~,one of the richest facts in the whole Plan of Redemption. Wewere crucified with Christ, we were nailed to the cross withHim, in the mind of God. As He was stripped naked and hungthere in His shame and disgrace, so we also, were strippednaked and hung there,

for He took our place on the cross.

We died with Christ, as He died. As He died to sin, sowe died to sin.

As He died to Satan's rule, so we died to it. As He diedto sickness and disease, we died. We were buried together withHim as He went down into the place of suffering and paid thepenalty of our sins and union with Satan. As He put off fromHimself the forces of darkness and sin, the sickness anddiseases of man, so we put them off in Him, we left them there.

We were raised together with Christ. He was raised upby the glory of the Father, when He had satisfied the claims ofjustice, and had met our great enemy Satan and His army in thedark regions of hell and conquered them. He then was madealive in spirit, and justified in spirit. Then, He arose; and werose with Him.

He was raised up because God justified Him, and He

could not be held longer, by death and hell. When He wasjustified, we were justified in Him. When He was healed ofdeath, we were healed in Him. When He conquered sicknessand disease, so also did we, in Him.

To all who are in Christ, disease is a conquered foe. Weare seated with Christ at the Right Hand of God, in the highestplace of power in the Universe. Identified with Him in sufferingand shame, and in glory.

Law of IdentificationHe has conquered death, hell, and the grave. He has

risen from the conquest of our enemies a Victor. We wereidentified with Him in that conquest.

We died with Him, we suffered with Him, and when Heput off from Himself the principalities and powers, andconquered Satan, paralyzing his death-dealing power, we wereidentified with Him. When He rose from among the dead andstood triumphant over death, hell, Satan and disease, and thegrave, we stood with Him.

Now, He gives to us the use of the Name that wasconferred upon Him when He had accomplished this mightywork in satisfying the claims of justice, defeating Satan, andmeeting the needs of humanity.

He gives to us that Name which is above every Name,the Name to which every knee shall bow and every tongueconfess in the three worlds. In His great grace He gave us theuse of that Name: He gave us a legal right to use it. He died asour representative: now we live as His representatives.

That Name represents all that He was or is, all that Heever did or will do. When, by a thorough understanding of this,we have been ushered into this faith realm, and we use thatDame intelligently, all that Name means in heaven, it will meanto us.

He has put absolutely no limitation upon our use of thatName. The only question is: "Do I understand what God means

in giving me the use of that Name?" We are not to use it as theheathen use their fetishes, but we are to use it in a businesssense, the legal sense of power of attorney.

We use His Name representatively. The sick andafflicted come to us, and healing virtue that is in Christ, that isin His finished work, is available to the sick one in that Name.

Then, it is not healing through Christ; that Namebecomes Christ, the healer.

A Living FactWhen Jesus was crucified. He took my place as a

sinner. He bore my sins in his body on the tree: He bore myshame that came through my union with Satan; He bore mydiseases that Satan had put upon me; He bore my judgmentwhich was mine, because of my union with God's enemy.

When He died, He carried all this off into the land offorgetfulness and He rose because He had put all this away. Henot only put my sin away, my shame and my diseases, but Heput me away, the old me, me, the sinner. He put my sin natureaway.

He put my infirmities away along with my sin,sicknesses, and diseases, so that now I stand with Him and inHim as free from them as He was free when He rose.

A New CreationHis justification is my justification; His righteousness is

my righteousness; His health is my health; His freedom fromSatan's dominion is my freedom; His freedom fromcondemnation, is my freedom from condemnation; His freedomfrom infirmities, is my freedom from infirmities; for in Him Ienjoy all that He did and all that He now is. All that He did, Hedid for me. Let me state it again:

Jesus, My SubstituteIf He bore my sins, I do not need to bear them; If He

bore my sin nature, I do not need to bear it; If He bore myinfirmities, I do not need to carry them; If I DO bear them, thenHe died for naught.

So when I accepted Him as my Saviour, confessed Himas my Lord, and was baptized into His Name, I was baptizedinto His standing before the Father. I was baptized into Hisrighteousness that He wrought; I was baptized into Hisjustification; baptized into His health for the body, soul andspirit; I was baptized into the victory that He had won overSatan; I was baptized into all He means to the Father, for Hedied representatively for me; and now, He reigns up there,representatively for me.

As He is my representative up there, now, I am Hisrepresentative here in the earth.

He has put me, and mine, and all the sin, that was in me,away, and He has given me all that was His: all that He did, allthat He was, so that "as He is now, so am I in this world."

The Struggle Is OverIt does not require any faith on my part to enjoy this, be

cause He gave it to me; it is mine, and what is mine I do nothave to have faith to obtain, for I have already obtained it; I amin possession of it. All I need to do is praise Him for it, andwhen I praise Him and thank Him for it, then the thing becomesoperative in my life.

So now, I stand before God and the angels, yes, andbefore Satan, clothed in Christ, hidden in Christ, enwrapped inChrist. Think what it means! His Name is the Name of theConqueror, and I am baptized into this Name, and bear thisName; I hear the Name of the Conqueror.

"For as many as were baptized into Christ have put onChrist." I have put on Christ; Christ tabernacles Himself overme. "It is no longer I then that live but Christ liveth in me.""Wherefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature."

Then, I am a new creature, and that new creature isseated with Christ. "Old things have passed away." The oldthings of weakness, the old things of failure, the old things ofimpotence, the old things of unbelief, are passed away whilethe new things of faith, the new things of life, the new things ofhealth for body, soul, and spirit are mine.

I live in the new realm where the new things are areality.

"And that life I now live, I live by faith in the Son ofGod Who loved me and gave Himself up for me." I do not have

to TAKE this position; I am in this position. I do not have tostruggle for it, believe for it, die daily for it, for I am in it, it ismine. Mine because when I was born again, and baptized intothe Name of the Lord Jesus, I was born into it, I was baptizedinto it, and I am in it. Hallelujah!

This gives me the undisputed Right to the use of HisName and all that Name stands for in Earth, Heaven, and Hell.

Prayer BattleIf planning to use the Name of Jesus in prayer battles,

one needs to know the power invested in that Name which Godesteems above every Name. That Name stands for us as Jesusstands for us. When one really prays in that Name intelligently,scripturally, and in the Will of God, it is as though ChristHimself, prayed.

There is no force, might, or authority in earth, air, or hellthat can prevent its answer; it simply must come to pass. Inyour own integrity, in your rights, privileges, and authority youapproach your mountain, you command it in that Name, "Up,hurl yourself into the sea." The mountain cannot help it. Youcannot help it. All hell cannot help it. It simply must go.

Back of your command lies God's integrity, Hisomnipotence, and Christ's unlimited power, all at your disposal.

Stand in the NameThe hosts of hell may assault you, but you meet them in

that Name that once spread consternation through hell, whenHe put, "to naught him that had the authority of death, that isthe devil." Hebrews 2:14.

Satan dares not face the warrior who is clothed inChrist's righteousness, and who knows the power of thatmighty Name.

Mark 11:23 "Whosoever shall say unto this mountain,Be thou taken up and cast into the sea and shall not doubt inhis heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass;he shall have it."

You think your mountain is large, the sea at a greatdistance, your own faith small; well, all this may be true, butyou have confidence in that Name even if you have not in yourown faith. So, in that great Name command the mountain to go,not in your faith, but in that Name. It will go. It must go!

It is not the quantity of faith, but the place where it iscentered. If you ask in that Name, you are a victor from thishour, whether it concerns money, health, or souls, you cannotfail. The Mighty Name that heads up all the power of theUniverse says so, and it must be so.

God's WillAn unswerving, unconquerable will knows no defeat.

You come to your mountain, you know its power, its greatness;you have compassed it more than seven days; you have facedit perhaps for a long period, but the battle must be foughttoday.

You know you are in His will. So now you will thismountain to go; your will becomes His will; your command, Hiscommand. You say, "In the Name of Jesus I command you togo." That makes Jesus say it, and when He says it, that makesthe Father say it.

Standing back of you are the union of the Trinity andthe power of the Universe.

Your will and God's will are allied against the enemy.They are now identical. Through you God is able to fight Hisenemies. Through you He can act. Through you He can useHis power as He wills to use it. You hurl that matchless Nameof His Son against the hosts of hell, and they will fly inconfusion.

You walk among men, the God-man, a man of God. Godhas put Himself in your hands and says, "Use my Will, Name,Word and Power" and your mountain becomes a plain. Youropponents have to fight God. The battle is His. It is His honornow, that is assailed.

He fights; men tremble, and fall to rise no more.

Gird Yourself With the NameAs the hosts of evil come against you, you gather up

your entire moral, mental, and spiritual energy, and in the Nameof Christ you throw yourself against them.

You are a part of that Name as you are a part of God, soyour victory must be complete.

You are identified in Christ in all He is, was, or will be.Your enemy may be stubborn and resist you, but your will isset, you are going to win, and you literally charge on theenemy in that all-conquering Name. The enemy may stand for atime, but he must yield; it takes a strong will to hold us quiet insome places, but God can make our wills strong enough to doit.

PersistenceYou know, and have set your WILL to do the will of

God; now, push your way up through every obstacle theenemy may place in your way. Gather up all there is in you, anddrive your shrinking, halting flesh into the briars. It must go,shout your command and stand to it until you are obeyed.

"If he shrink back, my soul bath no pleasure in him,"has spurred me over many a rough place, held me true in someawful hours. If you have taken hold of the plow, hold on untilthe field is finished. These weak-kneed men and women are asad army.

Look up to that mountain; it is yours!

"Every place where your foot shall tread I have given itto you for an INHERITANCE."

This blessed, inspiring promise greeted Israel as theyfaced the Promised Land. Foot-prints meant possession, but itmust be their own foot-prints.

Our Joshua gives us the same incentive for conquest.Every promise in the New Testament that we put our feet uponis ours. The rich plain of healing is yours if you will simply putyour foot there. The upland of spiritual power is yours, thoughAnak may live there; it is yours if you will but vo against himand drive him out of his strongholds in the might of the Name.

All the blessed promises of the Old Book are yours, andwhy are ye so slack to go up and possess your land? Between

you and your possessions that huge mountain looms up.Gather your forces, and in that all-sufficient Name, go against_it. Don't give up until the last enemy is conquered and ispaying tribute to you.

The size of your inheritance depends upon how muchland you have trodden under foot really stood on, or walkedover. You can claim as many promises, (and hold them as yourproperty), as you have tested and found true. So march up tothis mountain and make it yours.

Every lust and passion can be captured and made asoldier of the cross if you persevere with a will that will not bebeaten or driven from the field. Persistence is greater thangenius. Satan knows that you realize that your interests andGod's are identified, and that God cannot see you fail withoutseeing Himself fail; and this He will not allow.

Then with a knowledge of your privileges, as a Son ofGod. and a will to have them for yourself and others, coupledwith a persistent spirit that will not admit defeat, you can castinto the sea any mountain that stands before you. Go in thisthy might and God will get glory and you victory.

MAN'S THREE-FOLD NATUREMAN is a three-fold being, body, soul, spirit. Man's

education should cover his whole being. To train only thephysical is to make a prize fighter. To train only the mental is tomake an intellectual aruirchist.

To train only the spiritual is to make a fanatic. But Godplanned to develop the whole man. Man's spiritual nature iscapable of culture that will enable him to know God andcommune intelligently with Him. It was God's dream that manshould be His companion, so his spiritual faculties wereoriginally attuned to the pitch of this dream.

Through the Fall, man was alienated from God.

His spiritual faculties were greatly impaired; yet,through Christ, this lost fellowship is restored. The spiritualfaculty in man is capable of marvelous development; yet oureducational institutions fail to recognize its possibilities.

Our RealmThe supernatural realm is really the realm of the

believer. No one knows how much the mind and spirit can bedeveloped. If the body is kept in fine fettle, there is almost nolimitation to man's mental and spiritual development. We havebeen slow to come to a realization that man is spirit and that hisspirit nature is his basic nature.

We have sought to educate him along intellectual lines,utterly ignoring the spiritual, so man is a self-seeking andselfcentered being. Thus man has lost his sense of relationshipand responsibility toward God and man. This makes himlawless, an anarchist.

We cannot ignore the spiritual side of man withoutmagnifying the intellectual and physical; to do this without therestraint of the spirit is to unleash sex passions and give themdominance over the whole man. Man must have fellowship forhis spiritual nature.

There must be a culture and development of thespiritual nature to the point where it can enjoy fellowship withthe Father God.

The heart or spirit of man craves the touch of thesupernatural. The love for the miraculous is in man. The spiritof man cannot be analyzed or classified by the mind; it is abovemind, as God is above the physical nature. Man's intellect isever conscious of supernatural forces about him that he cannotunderstand or interpret; perhaps, that is the reason why man

longs to perform miracles.

The Soul Cry for MiraclesThe curiosity for the miraculous is deepseated in man.

Man was brought into being by a miracle-working God andman will ever yearn to work miracles. The supernatural realm isreally man's realm. Sin has blinded us and has kept us fromfinding the secret door that will lead us back to our lost estate.

But the hunger is there, and the miracle is the way tobring man to God. Is there a miracle element in Christianitytoday? Did miracles end with the death of the disciples?

Are the socalled miracles that men claim to performtoday fraudulent or purely psychic?

These are questions that we cannot ignore.

There has come a falling away on the part of thechurches. Modernism dominates the great religious forces ofChristendom; its denial of the supernatural element inChristianity makes it simply an ethical religion.

On the other hand, we have those who are contendingfor an original, miraculous element in Christianity, but declaringthat miracles ceased with the death of the apostles; thatChristianity does not need the miraculous today to convincemen of the Deity of Jesus.

Then we have a third group who claim miracles are stillbeing performed; that the sick are healed, that prayers areanswered, and that God is a living reality in the daily life of thebeliever.

We cannot ignore the amazing growth of ChristianScience. Unity, New Thought, and Spiritism. The people whoare flocking to them are not the ignorant masses, but the mostcultured and wealthy of the land, and their strongest appeal isthe supernatural element of their socalled religions, thetestimonies of healings by their followers are their strongestasset.

We cannot close our eyes to the fact that in many ofour cities on the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Eddy has a strongerfollowing today and a larger attendance at her churches thanhave the old line denominations; and the largest percentage ofher followers have at one time been worshippers in thedenominations, they have left them because they believe theyare receiving more help from Mrs. Eddy's teaching than fromthe preachers.

They will tell you how they were healed and how theywere helped in their spiritual life by this strange cult. This is alibel upon the modern Church, it is not only a libel but achallenge.

What We NeedWe have lost the supernatural element out of

Christianity and we are clinging with trembling hands to ahistorical Christ that has no power to heal the sick and noability to meet our daily needs. The spirit of real evangelism isalmost a thing of the past.

We have driven the miracle working Christ out of theChurch; now we are driving the believers in miracles out of theChurch.

We cannot blame the missions and non-conformistcults that are rising everywhere.

It is a protest of the people against the moderntheological thought that dominates the Church. ChristianScience could not have grown to the place where it isdominating many of our large cities unless there had been ademand in the heart of the people for a supernatural religion.

The Pentecostal movement could rot have risen withthe power that it has, had not the heart of the people beencraving a new, fresh vision of Christ. A dead orthodoxy has noresurrection power within itno miracle working force back of it.

The people are putting up with extravagances andfanaticism in order that they may get a little touch of thesupernatural God. Cultured men and women will listen touneducated preachers because the uneducated preacher in thedingy mission has faith in a living God.

When men tell us that we do not need miraclestodavthat education will take their place, they have notthought through on this subject. No man can actually live andwalk with the Man of Galilee without living in the realm of themiraculous. Jesus is as much a miracle now as ever.

Man needs His miraculous touch now more than ever.Nothing but a return to this God of Miracles will save our landand nation.

Is This True?If a preacher has the reputation of acting on James 5:14

or Mark 16:18 he is disqualified for most of the denominat;onalpulpits. The Church is no longer in the grip of God, but underthe sway of scholastic intolerance.

Our slogan should be "Back to the Living, MiracleWorking Christ." People want Him, so they crowd the buildingwhere he is allowed to act. Jesus attracted the multitude bymiracles. Jesus will attract them today. "He is the sameyesterday, today, and forever." We have three classes today.First, those in whom the physical dominate.

These are governed by their passions, appetites andphysical desires. Second, those in whom the mind dominates.In this class, we have the great financial, educational, so cialand political leaders. A purely intellectual development makesman a dangerous asset to society; it develops his ego, hisselfishness, and selfconsciousness.

Third, those in whom the spirit dominates. These arethe great spiritual leaders of the Church today men who areseeking to restore man to his original spiritual realm.

Three-Fold DevelopmentThere must be a three-fold education in order to make

society sane, safe and progressive. A purely intellectualattainment lacks balance, lacks the governing and disciplinethat the spiritual only can give. This explains the crime wavethat is sweeping over the land. For two generations we havebeen developing the physical and mental at the expense of thespiritual.

Where children have no spiritual training in the home orin the school, and are not brought in contact with it in theChurch, they develop unconsciously an abnormalindividualism. This is the basis of anarchy. Every man becomesa law unto himself; the gratification of his desires, the carryingout of his own plans, the utter ignoring of personalresponsibility toward his brother is the result.

All normal men crave the supernatural. Thesupernatural realm was man's original realm; here. He reignedas king. Sin came, and he was dethroned; yet all throughhuman history we see the outreaching of man for themiraculous. Satan has offered man many substitutes but allhave been disappointing.

The Spirit Should RuleWhen God created man, He planned that man's spirit

should be the dominant reigning force. Sin dethroned the spiritand made the body or mind dominant. Humanity is dividedbetween those whose minds rule the body and spirit, and thosewhose bodies rule the mind and spirit.

Among the great leaders in the educational, financialand social world, the mind is dominant. Among another largeportion in our land, the physical is dominant.

A generation ago we taught the boy and girl that theymust keep the body under or it would destroy them.

Today, in our high schools, the physical has gained theascendancy. Christianity would restore the spirit to the place ofdominance, if it had the opportunity. Man must have food forhis spiritual nature. Man's spiritual nature must be exercised,developed, cultured, until it gains the ascendancy over theintellectual and physical.

When this becomes a reality, man shrinks fromlawlessness. This awakening of man's spiritual nature gives usour moral consciousness; it develops in us a responsibilitytoward our fellow man.

For a man to be educated mentally is to he one-thirdeducated; to be educated physically and mentally is to betwothirds educated; but to he educated mentally, physically,and spiritually is a well rounded education.

The Why of BolshevismTo leave out the spiritual and magnify the mental makes

man an anarchist, an unbalanced, ungoverned, and dangerousforce in the world. Take the supernatural out of Christianityand its flavor is gone; the element that makes it attractive toyouth is eliminated.

Christianity must have a living God in it, One Who rulesand demands a certain sacrifice, for religion without self-denialwill fail. Through all the ages, it has been a battle of thesupernatural versus the intellectual. The God of miracles is theGod of the human, and when you eliminate the miraculous, youtake away the attractive element of Christianity.

FELLOWSHIP ANDRELATIONSHIP

GOD is faithful, by whom you were called into thefellowship of Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. 1:9. The entire planof Redemption heads up in this wonderful word, "Fellowship,,'for what would Redemption and a New Creation mean if He hadno fellowship with His Children.

The secrets of the Lord are with those who are infellowship with Him. The reason why "Believers" are unable toget into the Word and enjoy the fruit and privileges in Christ isbecause their fellowship is either broken or they have a verylow type of fellowship.

The happiness of the home is in the fellowship betweenthe members of that household.

The real fruit of life is fellowship. There would never bea divorce if fellowship had not been broken by the husbandand wife. When they are in fellowship, they desire children.When they are out of fellowship, they shrink from the verythought of it. When fellowship is broken, they simply livetogether; they endure each other.

The desire for fellowship is the reason for marriage, andthe joy of fellowship is the fruitage of marriage. When one isborn again and becomes a New Creation, the highest joy thatthe spirit has ever known comes from his fellowship with theFather and with Jesus and the Word.

The thing that breaks fellowship in the home is thethoughtless act and unkind word or look. It wounds the heart;it bruises the spiritual nature. Fellowship is not a mental thing;it is spiritual. The mind comes into harmony with the spirit andenriches the fellowship.

When fellowship is broken with the Lord, the Biblebecomes a closed book and it only condemns and hurts.

That is the reason that people who are out of fellowshiphave no appetite for the Word. They have no desire for prayer.They cannot use the Name of Jesus with any degree of felicityor joy. Their spirit nature is benumbed just like a paralyzedhand. The Spirit says, "That which we have seen declare weunto you, that ve may have fellowship with us; and truly ourfellowshin is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

These things write I unto you that your joy may bemade full." 1 John 1:3-4).

Do you understand the difference between "happiness"and "joy?" Happiness comes from right association. Joy comesfrom fellowship with the Father through the Word.

It is a strange, sweet experience, having prayeranswered, to know that in the Name of Jesus you can cast outdemons, you can set men free. You can bring joy to the heart ofthe Father and joy to your own heart.

"If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk indarkness, we lie and do not the truth, but if we walk in the light,as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and

the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."Our fellowship is threefold; with the Father; with the Word andwith one another and I might also add with our ownselves.

When your fellowship is broken, you know that youhave lost something and you quarrel with your own mind andaccuse yourself of having done something to break yourfellowship and to forfeit your joy.

If we are so unwise to say that we have not sinned ordone anything to break our fellowship, we are telling anuntruth for the Father never withdraws his fellowship fromanyone who is walking in the light. (1 John 2:8-9.) "He thatsayeth that he is in the light and hateth his brother is indarkness until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in thelight and there is none occasion of stumbling in him, but theman who walks in darkness knows not where he is going." (Hisspirit is in darkness.)

But I John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful andjust or righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us fromall unrighteousness." In 1' Juhn 2:1, "These things write I untoyou, that ye sin not, and if any man sin, we have an advocatewith the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."

The moment that you break fellowship, you should say"Father, in Jesus' name, forgive," and your Advocate orLawyer seated at the right hand of the Father takes up yourcase and restores your broken fellowship. It is not safe to beout of fellowship a moment, for when you are out of fellowship,you are in Satan's fellowship, without protection. You see that

you are in the darkness and you cannot make wise decisions;you cannot get His Will.

You will never be led into false teaching as long as youare in fellowship with Him.

When you break your fellowship; it does not mean thatyou have broken your relationship; you are still his son. Healone can break your relationship. You alone can break yourfellowship. It is of vital importance that you know this lessonand walk in the light of it, for you never know when you willneed the ability to approach the Father without fear foryourself or for some loved one, so walk in the light as He is inthe light.

No one can use the Name while out of Fellowship, it isvitally important that one keep in the fullest fellowship everymoment.

OUR SPIRITUAL INITIATIVEIN PRAYER

THE hindrance to our spiritual initiative in prayer comesfrom the neglect of reading and feeding on the Word. Mostly Itis evidence of a low type of spiritual fellowship. When we loseour spiritual initiative, we lose something that would drive usthrough to victory in hard places.

It is time then that we should give ourselves to thestudy of the Word. It is the personal study of the Word thatcounts. Whenever your faith loses its afygressiveness, thesenses have gained the ascendancy. Whenever spiritual thingstake second place, it is evidence that the realities of the divinethings are losing out; that sense knowledge is slowly butsurely gaining the mastery. It dominates at the "crossroads"where it is necessary that we have keen spiritual discernment.We cannot take a negative attitude toward the Word.

We assent to the Word instead of acting upon it. Thatholy fearlessness is lost.

The heart will not be saying, "I can do all things in Himtoday." When the spiritual intiative is low, you will never hearone say, "Greater is He that is in me than the forces thatsurround me."

It is when the great things of Scripture are held asdoctrines rather than as a reality, when the opinions of men areput above the Word of God. Out of this will grow an inferiority

complex in the spiritual realm.

Whenever your heart loses its boldness towards theLord, its fearlessness in acting on the Word, you are in danger.The prayer life has lost its reality and things of the senses havetaken its place. You see that is a real spiritual disease. Now thebody becomes helpless. The mind where disease and fear growand mature is under the dominion of an outside power and youare in a dangerous condition.

The cure is going to the Word again; giving yourselfover to it, resolutely taking your place. Refuse to give up yourconfession.

Your ResponsibilityWe have seen the marvelous possibilities that belong

to the believer who knows the authority and power that isinvested in the name of Jesus, and this knowledge carries withit a responsibility that cannot be ignored. You can never be thesame kind of a Christian that you have been in the past.

You have caught a glimpse of what you might do if youdared to use the authority that is now your own, because themoment that you are recreated, that Name became yours. Itgives you an opportunity to help those about you.

Most of us have been brought up to court ourweaknesses and failings and to think of our lack of ability. Butthere are sick and needy ones that could be helped throughthat Name. There are those bound by habits whom Satan ruleswith a merciless hand that could be set free if you would takeyour place.

I want you to notice the distinction between John 14:13-14 and John 16:23-24. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in myname, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." With this,goes Mark 16:17-20.

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Hethat disbelieveth shall be condemned. These signs shallaccompany them that believe: In My Name, they shall cast outdemons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take upserpents; if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise

hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shallrecover.

"And they went forth and preached everywhere, theLord working with them and confirming the word by the signsthat followed." Notice carefully, this Scripture differs from John16:23-24 where Jesus says, "And in that day ye shall not prayto me. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything ofthe Father, He will give it you in my name; ask and ye shallreceive that your joy may be made full."

In this Scripture, you are praying to the Father in Jesus'name. In your praises and petitions, you come to the Father inJesus' Name. In the other Scripture, you are not praying, butyou are using the authority of the name to heal the sick, to castout demons and to set men and women free. Acts 3:1-10illustrates this. Peter did not pray when he said to the impotentman, "in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."

There is no record of their praying for the sick in thebook of Acts. They simply laid hands on them and commandedthe adversary to leave and for the sick to arise and walk. FromMark 16, you can see that the moment a man is born again he isexpected to begin to use that Name. You lay your hands on thesick and say, "Disease leave this body."

Another staggering fact was that the Name was useslargely in healing men and women who were not Christians. Itevidently was God's method of advertising the ministry. So youcan lay hands on the unsaved. When you realize that thisauthority has been given to the individual members of the

body of Christ and not to the ministry alone, it puts theresponsibility squarely upon every believer. You are not only amember of the body, but you have become a responsiblemember of that body.

Another significant fact is that the word "Faith" or"Believe" does not occur in these Scriptures from the gospel ofJohn. It is evident that the Believer had a legal right to the useof the Name and it was not a problem of Faith, but obedience touse the ability that God had given.

LAST WORDSYou have read this remarkable book. Many think it one

of the most outstanding messages that has been given to theChurch in the last fifty years. What is your responsibility afterhaving read it? Should you not help us to give this message tothe men and women who need it so desperately.

This book has changed the prayer life and the thinkingof hundreds of thousands of people. The first ten thousandedition is said to have changed the prayer life of the wholePacific Coast wherever this truth has gone.

The book has been translated into Chinese and has hada mighty ministry there.

Would it not be possible for you to invite some of yourfriends into your home and start a Bible class, going throughthis book and reading it carefully with your Bible in yourhands? You should also read it along with my other books. Alist of my other books is found on the last page. These bookswill fit you to teach the Word in such a way that you maybecome a blessing to the world.

If one understands what is written in this book, he neednever live a life of defeat.

Write to us what your reactions are and if you wouldlike to help us distribute this kind of literature. You should read"The Father and His Family," a book, which reveals a trueconception of our Redemption.

Table of ContentsThe Wonderful Name of JesusFIRST WORDSTHE WHY OF THE BOOK

Then This Book CameHOW HE OBTAINED HIS NAME

His Three-Fold GreatnessThis Is the ManFor What Purpose?The Mighty VictorAuthorityThe Use of the NameNew Land Ahead

WHAT IS BACK OF THE NAMETHE USE OF THE NAME

IN MY NAME YE SHALL CAST OUT DEMONSIn His Name

MAN AND MIRACLESMiracles NormalChristianity is a MiracleThe Universal Man Believes in Miracles.Man Demands Miracles

THE PLACE OF FAITH IN THE USE OF THE NAMEJesus Is In That Name Ile is that Name.That Name Is HealingHis ProgramWe Are Alive

My Legal RightsHis Word TrueThe Place Confession Holds

THE NAME IN THE GOSPELSThe Name In the Gospel of MarkThe Name in the Gospel of LukeThe Name in the Gospel of John

THE BOOK OF ACTSThe First Miracle in the NameHow the Early Church Used the NameConsternation in the SanhedrinJail Doors Were OpenedThe Name for HealingA People Gathered About the NameHas God Lost His Power?

THE NAME IN THE EPISTLESDo All Things in the Name.

THE NAME IN DAILY CONFLICTHe Willed Us His NameHow to Use His NameThe Divine AdvocateThe Simplicity of PrayerHow to Pray

CONTRAST OF SENSE KNOWLEDGE FAITH ANDREVELATION FAITH

Mental AssentActing On the WordFaith and Believing

THE NAME IN BAPTISM

Christ Our FullnessOur InheritanceA Three-fold MeaningAll, All, Is Ours

IDENTIFICATION WITH CHRISTLaw of IdentificationA Living FactA New CreationJesus, My SubstituteThe Struggle Is OverPrayer BattleStand in the NameGod's WillGird Yourself With the NamePersistence

MAN'S THREE-FOLD NATUREOur RealmThe Soul Cry for MiraclesWhat We NeedIs This True?Three-Fold DevelopmentThe Spirit Should RuleThe Why of Bolshevism

FELLOWSHIP AND RELATIONSHIPOUR SPIRITUAL INITIATIVE IN PRAYER

Your ResponsibilityLAST WORDS